Edmundo González received twice as many votes as Nicolás Maduro in the presidential election on Sunday, July 28, according to an independent audit of electoral documents conducted by journalists from Washington Post.

The report by Samantha Schmidt, Stephen Rich, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Maria Luisa Paul examines 23,000 tabulation sheets, representing nearly 80 percent of the machines where votes were cast.

The documents were digitized by opposition election observers and physically verified by journalists from the American newspaper.

The table published this Sunday evening shows that Maduro has 3 million 131 thousand votes compared to González’s 6 million 901 thousand.

The independent event contradicts the official version that Nicolás Maduro received 52 percent of the vote.

On election night, the National Electoral Council of Venezuela issued partial results for 80 percent of the protocols, without presenting documents from the polling stations.

Nicolás Maduro says he has all the elements to prove his triumph, but he has not demonstrated them in a way that could be approved by the international community, which demands day after day that all protocols be transparent.

The Washington Post examined the opposition’s physical protocols and compared them with digital ones.

The newspaper acknowledges that it has no independent confirmation of the documents’ origins, but describes elements that suggest they may be: each entry has a QR code with encrypted information that matches the digitized data.

The protocols were signed by different persons and have seals and marks corresponding to the official election documents.

The event coincides with an effort by the AP agency, which has taken on the task of compiling all available information about the votes cast on Sunday, July 28.