Interview Cocuyo Effect

We spoke exclusively with Ginny Lincoln, head of the Carter Center’s election observation mission, about what the presidential elections in Venezuela have left behind and the results presented by the National Electoral Council of Venezuela. A conversation from the Venezuela Vota and #LaHoraDeVenezuela initiatives.

The head of the Carter Center mission said that the information provided by the CNE was “not transparent” because “they declared the total number of candidates as winners, but without the basis of information from the tables, from the protocols. And yet the witnesses have copies of the protocols in their hands, and this is the key information. “These are numbers that are not equal,” he said. For this reason, the organization it represents prefers to state that “the results announced are not final, they are partial and not based on key information.”

“Electronic voting is only one part, the main thing is that there is a protocol for each table, and voters have a receipt for their vote, which is placed in the boxes. “There are three ways to register votes to find out the vote count.”



Lincoln said: “This remains under close scrutiny because elections that cannot be said to meet international standards are not democratic and cannot be verified as reflecting the will of the people.”

After all, the Carter Center’s election watchdog chief, Ginny Lincoln, still believes there is an opportunity to “fix this.”