Turnout figures in Venezuela's Constitutional Assembly election were manipulated up by least one million votes, Smartmatic, a company that has worked with Venezuela since 2004 on its voting system, said Wednesday. Mugica said Smartmatic, which has provided electronic voting technology for elections around the world, was able to detect the overstated officially announced turnout because of Venezuela's automated election system. "We estimate the difference between the actual participation and the one announced by authorities is at least one million votes," he said. Mugica declined to directly answer whether the manipulated turnout numbers changed the result of the election, in which authorities said 8.1 million people voted. Each questioned the election voting turnout.

Source: CBC News August 02, 2017 14:01 UTC