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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she is in hiding and that she fears for her freedom and for her life, in an op-ed published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

Machado, who is the main force behind the presidential candidacy of former ambassador Edmundo González, emphasized that Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro lost Sunday’s election and that she can prove it.

“I write this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom and that of my fellow countrymen under the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro,” Machado wrote in an editorial titled: I can prove that Maduro got trounced.

“Mr. Maduro did not win the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday. He lost by a landslide to Edmundo González, 67% to 30%. I know this to be true because I can prove it. I have receipts obtained directly from more than 80% of the country’s polling stations.”

Machado has not been seen for 24 hours.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“I have proof to back up my claim but I’m not going to present it.”

Suuuure buddy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

That would certainly track with the exit polling that Edison Research did:

https://www.edisonresearch.com/edison-research-conducts-exit-poll-in-venezuela/

Also, the official results are pretty sketch. Maduro got 51.2% exactly. That would be fairly unlikely to get a vote tally to an exact tenth of a decimal but it could totally happen. But Gonzalez got 44.2% exactly as well (the third guy clearly got an exact tenth of a decibel too because basic math). The likelihood of both of them getting that is 1 in 100 million.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

How many decimal places would you like to see? I think it's pretty normal to get only one, see e.g. https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2021-09-26-BT-DE/index.shtml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait...a Venezuelan pollster (Hinterlaces) did exit polling in Venezuela...where exit polling is illegal? The editor in chief of the site you are using worked for The Grayzone which is pretty notorious for spreading Russian and Chinese propaganda. They have hired many people from RT and Sputnik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

where exit polling is illegal?

So, you admit the Edison poll is bullshit propaganda? Nice. Can’t take that back homie, the cat’s outta the bag.

(Machado with George Bush after the 2002 coup attempt in May 2005)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They had time to make a cryptic post that could manipulate public sentiment, but couldn’t have lead with the evidence they claim to have? Yeah, nah that sus.

Either put out the proof or don’t make the claim. Until that point, this person cannot be trusted.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

While Maduro tries to imprison them all and prevent the release of any results, the opposition is working hard to compile all the results they can get their hands on online for anyone to see:

https://supervisiondev2.metabaseapp.com/public/dashboard/6b2f7b3b-16ec-4af6-84c7-69c39ee2139d?tab=16-english

The only person that can't be trusted here is Maduro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If she's a CIA plant, she should be put in a camp making big rocks into little rocks for the rest of her life.