You can vote your way into communism, but you can’t vote your way out of it, as Venezuela is finding out, the hard way. Despite Maduro losing by 30+ points according to exit polls, he managed to steal yet another election and has been declared the winner by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE). Let this be a warning to all Americans voting on November 5th… You saw what happened in 2020, make sure it doesn’t happen in 2024.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) declared socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro the “winner” of Sunday’s sham presidential election, granting him a six-year term.
The “results” heavily contradict exit polls and preliminary poll tallies that suggested an overwhelming victory for Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González — the only legitimate opposition candidate allowed to be on the ballot — against the ruling dictator. The Venezuelan opposition immediately contested the “official” results, claiming that González defeated Maduro by a roughly 40-percent vote difference.
Unlike previous sham elections in Venezuela, which featured extremely low voter turnouts, Sunday saw millions of Venezuelans head to the polls in numbers described by opposition leader figure María Corina Machado as “amazing.” Eyewitnesses reported large queues in voting centers across the country throughout the day. Although Machado was the opposition’s front-running candidate, the Maduro regime banned her from running for any public office in response to her support for international human rights sanctions against the socialists.
While footage showed high voter turnouts in Venezuela’s voting centers, only 69,000 Venezuelans migrants out of the millions of Venezuelans who fled from socialism were able to vote on Sunday as a result of the Maduro regime imposing difficult and often impossible to comply with requirements on expatriates to update their voter registry information.