These are the percentages of votes Venezuela’s parties received in yesterday’s election:
I said the total would be 146%, so I’m clearly off. Not by much, though.
In case people don’t know, 146% was once announced as the percentage of Russians who voted for Putin.
People in such regimes are so bamboozled that they sincerely don’t notice.
Besides, everybody who understood percentages already left the country.
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“This would appear to be some kind of computer bug…“
How neat! And do not for a moment think that I or thousands of people besides me did not consider that to be the case. And yet, ask yourself why there is no separate breakdown for each of the different candidates other than Maduro and the official opposition.
Also, I would like to remind everybody on this blog that the previous presidential election was considered a sham election, as many prominent opposition parties had been barred from participating in it. The elections had the lowest voter turnout in Venezuela’s democratic era. [Wikipedia]
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https://x.com/mistergusano/status/1818083910108262808
protesters have taken over Simon Bolivar airport.
I’m afraid for them, but also: go Venezuelans go!
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Military greeting protesters from bus:
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1818111429792165892
It’s hard to tell if what is going on in the videos is what the caption says is going on in the videos. One hopes it is.
They’re claiming Maduro has fled:
https://x.com/RNacional_News/status/1818116518950936655
Libertad!
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The total vote count announced by the Electoral Council, CNE, added up to 132.2 percent, and eight parties received the same exact percentage: 4.6 percent. Maduro, they claimed, had won 51.2 percent of the vote. There was not even an attempt to make it look realistic. Finally, on Sunday night, Maduro claimed the electoral system was hacked and stopped the count. Carlos C., a radio host who spent two years as a political prisoner and asked to speak anonymously, told me last night, “They allow the numbers to be evidently fake because that’s how they show their power. They are laughing at us. And they want to make sure we know they are laughing at us.”
Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/freedom-fighting-venezuela-maria-corina-machado
It’s always like that. It’s in-your-face mockery and the victims can’t say anything because truth has been banished into the ether.
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