Venezuela Is About To Be Back In U.S. News

It should serve as a reminder that the Venezuelan opposition led by María Corina Machado failed to prove Edmundo González won the election

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It’s not unheard of for the United States to get involved in other countries’ elections to swing them in a way that serves U.S. corporate interests. The election in Venezuela over the summer appears to be another one of these cases. While much was made about the publicly available data presented by María Corina Machado’s opposition, the group failed to prove anything.

Instead, they offered precinct-level tally sheets that could not be authenticated due to various anomalies including forged signatures and fake names, and more than 90% of them are not certified. Certification of the precinct-level data makes the electoral system in Venezuela one of the most secure in the world. The process requires comparing election workers’ thumbprints and inked signatures with their digitally stored versions, which most tally sheets did not show.

Tally sheets found in opposition data show a completed tally sheet compared to two incomplete tally sheets with the third not showing valid names listed | Find the first tally sheet on the opposition’s website here, second here, and third here

While many point to the two U.S. media outlets that were offered the data before anyone else, as…