Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by nikolay on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:44PM (#41123786)

I've never seen any preliminary results announcing numbers of votes - it's always rounded up percentages with 1 or 2 decimals.

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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by yongjik on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:49PM (#41124367)

In my country (Korea) they broadcast vote counts, per district, in real time as data pours in from all over the country. It's a big entertainment going on for the whole night. And you can log onto the website of the office of the election commission and see raw numbers by each voting district.

It's 2024; I'd consider it a minimum level of government competency if anyone wants to be called a democratic country.

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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by lumb63 on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @08:47PM (#41125142)

As an American, boy, do I have news for you…

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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by GolberThorce on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @09:08PM (#41125260)

I understand why it's necessary for Koreans but in America, our citizens have an unprecedented level of honesty that makes this unnecessary. It takes multiple days for us to count because we have more people, and we don't require IDs like in South Korea because it places an undue burden on people who don't drive, drink, or watch R-rated movies at the theater.

I don't see anything transparently wrong with the Venezuelan election and it's anti-democratic to delegitimate the millions of citizens who voted for Maduro without sure proof.

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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by HPsquared on Thursday August 01, 2024 @06:05AM (#41127599)

This process led to a lot of controversy in the 2020 US Presidential election.

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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by zamadatix on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:41PM (#41124290)

I'd say it's extremely common to announce numbers of votes both as they come in and when the final total is known. Here in the US major news networks (ABC, CNN, Fox, 270towin, and others) all have live maps that show the total number of votes + total percentages during the voting period. They usually also let you hover over the states/counties to see the percentages and votes for the particular area.

E.g. here's the Fox map https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results and total votes comes first in the same font as percentages marked to the side. During the election these totals and percentages are live numbers.

And in the US we're not even that interested in the popular vote since it's all about the electoral college which has historically not always aligned with the popular vote numbers anyways yet we still list the totals as they come in.

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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by ptero on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:04PM (#41123975)

If the vote numbers were not provided, this would not have been an issue. But in this case they did announce the vote numbers.

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