ATLANTA. The deputy chief of mission in Venezuela of the Carter Center, Patricio Ballados, referred to the complaint by the regime of Nicolas Maduro about a hack into the electoral system during the July 28 elections. In this regard, he stated that “an attack via the Internet is practically impossible.”
During an interview with DW, Ballados stressed the “serious” irregularities that occurred in the electoral process in Venezuela and emphasized that it is “essential” that the electoral authority present the minutes of the tables.
One week before the presidential elections in Venezuela, the National Electoral Council, which is close to the Maduro dictatorship, has not presented the official results. However, the opposition, led by María Corina Machado, published more than 80% of the records obtained at the voting centers, thus validating the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia as president elected by Venezuelans with more than seven million ballots.
In his first bulletin, during the early hours of July 29, Elvis Amoroso, the principal director of the CNE, stated “we have immediately requested that the Attorney General of the Republic initiate an investigation into the terrorist actions perpetrated against our electoral system, our voting centers and electoral officials,” he said, before declaring Nicolás Maduro the winner without showing any minutes.
The dictator, after having allowed the Carter Center to monitor the elections, now seeks to discredit the institution by saying that all members “had the report written a month ago.”
There is no evidence of hacking
“There is evidence published on various portals that internet activity in Venezuela that night (July 28) was not beyond normal, there was no denial of service that could prove this hacking,” Ballardos said.
In his statements he also indicated that “an attack via the Internet was practically impossible, because what they had were channels dedicated solely to the transmission of CNE data; and that, a few days before the election, was offered by the authority as one of the safeguards and one of the greatest strengths of the system,” he said.
