Venezuela opposition insists vote had problems

Opposition leader Angel Oropeza said Monday the opposition won't recognize the results until an independent, internationally verified audit is conducted. He accused election officials of choosing "the path of fraud," though he did not claim they altered vote totals. Rather, Oropeza said, more than 1 million Venezuelans had difficulty voting Sunday because of problems like delays in opening polling sites and damaged machines. He also said at least 90,000 votes that should have gone to the opposition did not because election officials refused to remove from ballots candidates who lost in a September primary. More…