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Multiple international organizations and accredited observer missions — most prominently The Carter Center and a UN Panel of Electoral Experts — publicly reported serious anomalies in Venezuela’s most...
Venezuela’s 2018 and 2024 presidential votes were repeatedly described in sources as marred by systemic and on-the-ground irregularities: the 2018 poll saw opposition parties and candidates effectivel...
Since 2018 international responses to Venezuelan elections have split along geopolitical and regional lines: many Western governments and regional blocs rejected the Maduro-administered votes as neith...
The U.S. government publicly rejected the Venezuelan electoral authority’s July 28, 2024 results, declared Maduro’s claim illegitimate, recognized opposition winner Edmundo González Urrutia, and impos...
Nicolás Maduro’s 2019 and 2024 contested victories were enabled by a combination of pre‑emptive legal engineering—court interventions, party takeovers and legislature packing—and a series of electoral...
Smartmatic was a major supplier of electronic voting technology in Venezuela from the early 2000s through the 2010s, providing machines, software, training and logistics for multiple national election...
Political financing in Venezuela is governed by a national legal and institutional framework that emphasizes party regulation at the national level while leaving states broad administrative autonomy, ...
The official National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the July 28, 2024 presidential election, reporting roughly 51% of valid votes in his favor , but that d...
Venezuela’s 2018 and 2024 presidential contests were monitored only selectively by international actors, with many mainstream intergovernmental bodies declining participation and the missions that did...