María Corina Machado publishes voting records in the possession of the Venezuelan opposition.

"Venezuelan, through this link you can see how, with your vote and your will, you changed the history of Venezuela. Here you will find the records that we have processed and totaled up to this moment, which confirm our extraordinary triumph," stated María Corina Machado in a tweet.

María Corina Machado en el colegio electoral donde votó © X / @MariaCorinaYA
María Corina Machado at the polling station where she voted.Photo © X / @MariaCorinaYA

The dispute for power in Venezuela is not over following the result announced by the Chavista authorities, who proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president amid allegations of fraud from the opposition coalition, which, to prove it, has published the voting records they managed to safeguard from the polling stations.

"Venezuelan, through this link you will see how, with your vote and your will, you changed the history of Venezuela. Here you will find the records that we have processed and totaled up to this hour, which confirm our extraordinary triumph," said opposition leader María Corina Machado in a tweet.

Her publication was accompanied by a link to a page with the data on the polling stations collected by the opposition amid the countless obstacles and tricks of the regime to prevent transparency when disclosing the results.

According to the information collected in this database, a massive fraud occurred in Venezuela this Sunday. While the official data awarded 51.2% of the votes to Maduro, compared to 44.2% for Edmundo González, the tally conducted by the opposition shows that 73.25% of the records confirm the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia by a margin of 4 million votes.

"We already have a way to prove the truth of what happened at the polls. The difference was overwhelming; we won in all the states," said Machado the day before at a press conference alongside González.

The count of the opposition resulted in a vote of 2,759,256 in favor of Nicolás Maduro against 6,275,182 ballots for the opposition candidate.

"Some wonder why the opposition insists on the issue of the ballots and does not just call for rebellion. Those ballots are what will allow them to claim that they are the true winners in front of the growing number of countries waiting for the counting data before recognizing, or not, Maduro (which includes all the most relevant countries in the West and most of Latin America). It's not all about testosterone; there's synapse as well," explained Ignacio Montes De Oca, an Argentine journalist, writer, and international politics analyst, on his social media.

The move, regarded as masterful by international observers, will allow the opposition to demand that the Maduro regime respect national sovereignty and will exert even more pressure on the Venezuelan armed institution, which will have to decide whether to maintain the Civic-Military Union created by the dictatorship with the guidance of Havana, or to return to the democratic path and adhere to the civil supremacy over the military characteristic of these systems.

"The regime slept very worried and we did not sleep because we were very busy collecting evidence. (...) I want to tell you that we have 73.3% of the ballots at this moment and with this result our elected president is Edmundo González Urrutia," Machado stated this Monday from the Comando Con Venezuela, the political headquarters of the coalition of opponents.

The opposition leader pointed out that, with this result, Nicolás Maduro would have no way to catch up to the opposition leader. "Even if the CNE (National Electoral Council) gives him 100% of the remaining votes," she emphasized.

Political leaders assured that all the recovered records would be available starting Monday night and hosted on a highly secure website, and that anyone with a Venezuelan document could access the site to verify the authenticity of what has been expressed.

Additionally, valuing the spontaneous demonstrations that have emerged in rejection of the apparent fraud, María Corina Machado called for a peaceful demonstration this Tuesday, July 30 at 11:00 AM (Venezuela time).

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