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Here are the true vote totals, as reported by witnesses at the polling booths:

It was a landslide for the opposition candidate Gonzalez, 67% to Maduro’s 30%.

Sadly, the mathematical analysis in the OP is no match for the power of state brutality. It’s fun to point out the cheating, but ultimately it reminds me of xkcd 538.

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How do the witnesses know how people voted? I can't find sources saying whether Venezuela has as secret ballot or not, but I assume so otherwise it would be all over the news

Witnesses representing political parties are entitled by law to a copy of the tally before the machine sends its results to a central server.

Each copy must be signed by all witnesses and also contains a digitally-signed hash of the tally at the bottom of the receipt.

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