This Tuesday in his speech before the media, the president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, denounced that they are inflating the number of participation in the so-called primary elections held last Sunday, which constitutes a crime by usurping the identity of Venezuelans.
Rodríguez asserted this after demonstrating, with graphs and figures in hand, that the maximum installed capacity for participation in the event was of 860,000 voters:
“A real crime appears here, because they are inflating the number by more than two million people, that is, they are usurping the identity of two million Venezuelans, that is, they are usurping the will of two million Venezuelans”, he denounced.
“It is also a theft of will because there is no way to sustain that number,” he reiterated, and assured that as of today they have not yet been able to count the supposed votes:
“They have committed a crime, what they did last Sunday is a real mischief,” he said in reference to Jesús María Casal, Coordinator of the Primaries Commission, who even quoted pollsters who stated that 3 million voters were going to participate. In addition, he assured that Casal handed over the primary elections to a partisan political organization called Súmate.
“What was being planned was self-proclamation 2, the gringos pressing (…) lying,” stated the deputy.
Evidence of fraud:
In his intervention, Rodríguez explained that after constant monitoring at the voting centers, they determined that only 73% of them were installed, and that a maximum of 598,350 people voted, which represents 3% of the electoral registry in Venezuela.
He explained that for the numbers of the supposed ballots that they have presented to be true, the voting time would have to be less than a minute per person, which he assured is impossible in a manual process.
On the other hand, Jorge Rodríguez highlighted the numerical inconsistencies in the Primary Commission bulletins between table figures and other data.
Furthermore, with graphs in hand, Rodríguez showed examples of the low influx of voters at the Primary centers, an argument supported by a series of photographs that he showed of electoral centers with low influx of voters.
Likewise, he highlighted that there was no efficient and real scrutiny like the one there should be after every election, in which all people can participate and certify the results:
“If the principle of one voter, one vote has not been preserved, that already annuls any election. If it is demonstrated in an election that people have voted on several occasions, that already completely annuls the election,” said the parliamentarian who also denounced the existence of supervised votes.
In contrast to these approaches, Rodríguez recalled the guarantees offered by the CNE in its electoral processes, including the constant audits of each of the sub-processes.
