The Venezuelan presidential election went exactly as I imagined it would. The opposition turned out in force and voted for their candidate and then socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro announced he’d won by securing 51% of the vote.
Did this actually happen? Of course not.
The opposition fully expected something like this and managed to gather the vote tally sheets from precincts across the country. These tally sheets are printed at each voting site are the proof that Maduro lost this election.
With the reassuring tone of someone who has consistently been considered an underdog, opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado announced that her coalition had gathered more than two-thirds of vote tally sheets from polling centers nationwide, and that they show President Nicolás Maduro had lost his reelection bid.
The tally sheets known as actas — printouts measuring several feet that…
