Not 146%

~ Clarissa

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.

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    1. Yes, they all received the exact percentages, up to the decimal point. This is all completely normal and happens all the time. Or something.

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          1. She will get 46.1%, and a magic 4.6% will be won by a couple of third-party candidates. Or perhaps we will pull out all the stops, there will be so much enthusiasm that she will get 641% of the vote!

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    1. 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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  3. This would appear to be some kind of computer bug or failed visual design. 4.6% represents the total for all the third parties. If you only count it once, the numbers add to 100%.

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  4. “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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  6. 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

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