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Colombia's non-governmental Misión de Observación Electoral (Electoral Observer Mission) has reviewed available evidence posted by the Venezuelan opposition, finding them internally consistent and supportive of a victory by Eduardo González. moe.org.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240802-Pasos-y-hallazgos-resultados-Venezuela-2024.-Vff.pdf
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MOE Colombia has run mass observation missions of Colombian elections since 2006, fielding over 2600 observers to monitor electoral integrity.
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The mission reviewed data posted online by the opposition at resultadosconvzla.com, which presents aggregated totals as well as scanned receipts for each voting table.
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Due to image quality, the scans resolved for 21,952 actas, less than the 24,532 posted online, and 73.1% of the national total of 30,026. The National Electoral Court has published none of these, despite its legal obligations.
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MOE found that that its dataset was broadly consistent with the opposition's count of the 24,532 actas it has published, including on levels of participation.
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The data table compares the MOE's results with the Venezuelan National Electoral Court. Edmundo González leads 6.39M to 2.89M votes by the former count; Nicolás Maduro leads 6.41M to 5.33M in the latter.
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Since the CNE purports to be nearly complete, this means that some González votes appearing on the data sheets have not been counted by the CNE. Unless the data sheets are themselves fake, this requires affirmative explanation from the court.
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Conversely, the MOE analysts note that the apparent lack of Maduro votes in the CNE's count could not come from the different number of voting tables counted. Since 3.5M vote gap exceeds the number of uncounted votes, only fraud on one side or the other can explain.
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Much of the MOE report is devoted to totals at various levels: municipal, provincial, state. The lack of any such breakdown from the CNE is glaring and the MOE highlights this.
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MOE Conclusion: "To be able to perform a technically adequate analysis, it's necessary for the CNE or the Supreme Court to permit an integral audit of the voting, transmission and consolidation of information and of electoral results."
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MOE is on Twitter at @moecolombia. Post on the report here: x.com/moecolombia/status/1819765170748719339



