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Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela's opposition show


Edmundo González likely beat President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 election by millions of votes, a review of data from election receipts shows.

“After analyzing our own data, seeing the opposition’s results and how they both match up, my conclusion is that we’re witnessing the largest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America,” said Dalson Figueiredo, a political science professor at Brazil’s Federal University of Pernambuco who participated in that study. The trove is the result of a massive, sophisticated operation organized over months and executed by thousands of ordinary Venezuelans who watched the polls for irregularities on election day and refused to leave their voting centers without the receipts. Jennie Lincoln, head of the Carter Center’s mission in Venezuela, told The Post that the fact that votes were transmitted over dedicated telephone lines and satellite phones “calls an internet hacking disruption excuse into question.”

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