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Today is the end of the three-day deadline that the Electoral Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice gave the National Electoral Council (CNE) to hand over the tally sheets from the polling stations of the 28 July presidential elections.
The Chamber made this decision public on Friday night, 2 August. The text, which was also published on the TSJ’s X account, states that the Chamber “requests the CNE to hand over the following instruments related to the Presidential Elections of 28 July 2024 within three days of the notification of this decision to this Highest Instance: the Vote Counting Minutes of the Polling Stations at the national level; the Final Totalisation of the election process; as well as the Awarding and Proclamation Minutes of the aforementioned process”.
It also requested evidence of the cyber-attack denounced by NEC in the early hours of Monday morning. In the wording of the request, the Court seems to take for granted that such an attack did exist. The text reads: “Likewise, given that the cyber-attack denounced against the National Electoral Council’s computer system constitutes a public, notorious and communicative fact, as an impediment to the timely transmission of the electoral results, the highest electoral body is also requested to provide all elements of proof associated with such an event”.
The decision concludes by stating that the Chamber will be open from Monday to Sunday. Therefore, it is understood that the CNE must present its request by Monday at the latest, one week after it presented results without showing any tally sheet.
