On Sunday, October 22, 2023, an unexpected turn of events occurred in Venezuela’s primary presidential election. The committee in charge made an announcement that they were pausing the vote count. The reason given for this delay was a sudden issue with their computer servers. At the time of this interruption, a mere 26% of all […]
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