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Special envoy Yunus Soner in Venezuela witnessed the completion of the auditing process of the voting machines for the July 28th presidential elections and offers the details on how it went, just 6 days before the election. teleSUR

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00:00Venezuela completed the auditing of its voting machines ahead of the presidential elections

00:04of July 28.

00:06Our special envoy Juno Soner witnessed the procedure and has the details from Caracas.

00:13The National Electoral Council of Venezuela, the country's only institution to supervise

00:17elections and announce results, invited to a storehouse in Filas de Mariches in the eastern

00:22part of Caracas.

00:24What do we test today?

00:31We test the start of the machine, the zero record of the machine what they call the zero

00:35record, to ensure there are no voters loaded into the machine.

00:40We validate the integrity of data, that is, that everything that was audited is what the

00:44machine contains, we further validate the act of voting, the counting process, transmission

00:49process and the totalization process, and we validate, right?

00:56That the paper ballot with the tally sheet and what was transmitted to the totalization

01:00matches 100%.

01:05Randomly chosen 163 voting machines are placed in the storehouse, each passes the entire

01:11voting process, around each of them several people observing the work.

01:18We have here more than 18 technicians from the political organizations that represent

01:22the 10 alliances and include the 38 political organizations that are participating.

01:29Once the machine finishes work, each of them confirmed by signature it's working.

01:33In addition to all political parties, watchers from the United Nations and the Carter Center

01:38are also present.

01:40The president of the council takes a tour and helds a press conference.

01:47This is also an example for the world, as many countries and plenty of institutions

01:53have been criticizing Venezuela and today, many of those institutions are here, including

02:00international observers who have verified throughout all these days by performing audits

02:04alongside political parties, with the technicians of the National Electoral Council, with technicians

02:13from different universities.

02:17And today we feel very proud when we hear them saying this process is perfect.

02:23This was the 10th audition in preparation of the election.

02:27Six more tests are to come till July 28.

02:30Authorities informed that all voting machines, 30,026 in total, have been deployed all over

02:37the country.

02:41On July 28, we will have a great electoral party and we'll be at the end of the electoral

02:47process in the capacity to transmit the electoral results in the shortest possible time and

02:52subsequently proclaim the next president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

03:00Long live the homeland, long live Venezuela, and remember, everyone to vote on July 28,

03:10everyone to the ballot boxes.

03:15The electoral machinery is ready for July 28, the presidential elections here in Venezuela.

03:20Yunus Soner, Telesur, Caracas, Venezuela.

Venezuela | Voting machines pass the audited voting process

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