Voting sites were shifted to distant
neighborhoods with rampant crime. Ballots featured the faces of opposition
candidates who lost in primaries. The government-stacked National Electoral
Council denied monitoring accreditation to one of Venezuela's most important
independent observers. The opposition pointed on Monday to those irregularities
and others that began the moment regional elections were called to explain a
staggering loss in gubernatorial contests it had expected to win in Sunday's
voting. "We encountered an absolutely fraudulent system," said Carlos
Ocariz, the opposition's candidate in Miranda, the nation's second most
populous state where the candidate of the ruling socialist party won. More…
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