Venezuelan Election Scandal: Opposition Reveals Shocking Vote Counts Contradicting Maduro’s Win

Amid ongoing allegations of election fraud surrounding the Venezuelan presidential election, the opposition has published online voting results that starkly differ from those announced by the National Electoral Council, which declared Nicolás Maduro the winner.

According to Yonhap News, Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the democratic opposition, posted on her X account yesterday, stating, “Now all Venezuelans and the world can verify the presidential election records,” along with a link to the related website.

On this website, a vote tally graph shows that the democratic opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, received 7,173,152 votes (67%), while President Maduro received 3,254,24 votes (30%).

These figures represent an analysis of 81.85% of the data extracted from 24,576 of the 30,026 polling stations set up on election day, which was on July 28. The opposition estimates the voter turnout at 60.15%.

The website also provides detailed regional vote counts and percentages in the National State Aggregated Data section.

These voting results are entirely different from those announced by the CNE.

Earlier, Elvis Amoroso, chairman of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council, officially announced around 12:10 a.m. on July 29, approximately six hours after the official voting ended, “with 80% of the votes counted, Maduro received 51.2% and Gonzalez 44.2%,” declaring Maduro’s third-term victory as “irreversible” given the gap between the candidates.

In response, the opposition claimed, “The results presented by the CNE are completely different from the figures we verified,” reigniting the debate over vote counting irregularities.

However, the website does not provide additional evidence to verify these figures objectively.

As of 6 p.m. that day, the Venezuelan CNE website was experiencing access issues.

The Venezuelan prosecutor’s office claimed on July 29 that there were issues with some counting systems, alleging they detected a hacking attempt from North Macedonia.

The opposition countered, “The election results should be disclosed within 48 hours after voting ends, but the CNE shut down its website.”

The democratic opposition is rallying support online, asserting, “The President of Venezuela is Gonzalez.”

Amid growing allegations of vote-counting fraud both domestically and internationally, Maduro has urged his supporters to report any protesters who question his election to the police, according to the Washington Post.

In a press conference the previous day, the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office stated, “We have detained 1,062 individuals nationwide on charges of violence and property damage.”

The opposition expressed outrage, stating that those arrested were party members and volunteers who had been monitoring polling stations on election day.