It is nothing short of amazing that the democratic opposition in Venezuela was able to document and expose the massive electoral fraud carried out by Cuba-backed socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa explains in an Op-Ed in The Washington Times:
How Venezuela opposition leaders exposed Maduro’s election steal
While the recent Democratic and Republican national conventions were mostly about impressions and feelings, successful political campaigns rely on something else: “organizing” the ground game.
For an expert tutorial on that, there may be no better source these days than Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who organized a large part of her country of 28 million. With the help of some 600,000 volunteers, she proved conclusively that dictator Nicolas Maduro stole the recent presidential election. The United States and many other countries have refused to recognize Mr. Maduro’s illegitimate victory. The fight is far from over.
Electoral fraud is common under despotic regimes. Proving election fraud, however, is almost impossible; the regimes typically control the electoral system and the official voting documents.
Under these conditions, what Ms. Machado and her army of volunteers accomplished in the hours and days immediately following Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election was unprecedented — producing real-time voting tallies not only for the country as a whole but also for almost all of the country’s 30,000 voting stations.
Ms. Machado did this by creating a parallel election monitoring body similar to the regime-run National Electoral Council. The organization, which took advantage of the rules established by the Maduro regime, published a verifiable national vote count using official voter tally sheets.
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