(21 Jul 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 21 July 2024
1. Auditors and assistants testing a voting machine that is showing presidential candidates
2. Various of auditors and assistants testing voting machines
3. Auditors checking a printed paper log
4. Auditors testing a machine
5. Voting machine printing
6. Auditors checking a voting machine
7. Various of Elvis Amoroso (left), president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) visiting the CNE’s warehouse
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Elvis Amoroso, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE): “We can now proudly say that we have 100% of the voting machines distributed in each of the states of our beloved country Venezuela. It was a journey that lasted many days, trucks and trucks leaving from here from the CNE facilities.”
9. Amoroso talking with an auditor
10. Amoroso shaking hands with audit workers
11. Various of employee installing a voting machine
12. Various of CNE’s warehouse
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s electoral authority audited electoral material on Sunday, a week ahead of the highly anticipated presidential election.
From one of the warehouses of the National Electoral Council (CNE) just outside Caracas, CNE president Elvis Amoroso said everything was ready for the July 28th presidential contest.
“We can now proudly say that we have 100% of the voting machines distributed in each of the states of our beloved country Venezuela. It was a journey that lasted many days, trucks and trucks leaving from here from the CNE facilities,” said Amoroso.
The outcome of the election could give Maduro another six years in power or end 25 years of Socialist Party rule.
Maduro and his late predecessor Hugo Chavez maintained socialist policies that once successfully boosted anti-poverty programs, but whose sustained mismanagement later pushed the country into an ongoing economic crisis.
For years, opposition politicians boycotted elections they saw as rigged, but as the government’s popularity has ebbed, former rivals have banded together in an attempt to change the government at the ballot box.
AP video by Lucas Dumphreys.
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