(30 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela - 30 June 2024
1. People queuing to cast mock vote at an election center
2. People and military personnel lining up to vote
3. Various of people voting
4. Person placing his finger on the fingerprint reader to vote
5. Wide of people voting
6. Person placing ballot paper in ballot box
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Milena Valera, lawyer:
"Very simple, as always. It was formed by the horseshoe and it was fast. They look you up in the system, you register your fingerprint, you go back to the polling place and a big screen comes up, quite visible. That doesn't even take a minute."
8. Person voting
9. People queuing to vote
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Rondon, computer engineer:
"Venezuela is a country that has more than 25 continuous elections since 1999. We have a lot of experience in the election processes, however the expectations are to continue giving continuity to this exercise, to this process of law."
11. Various of people waiting to vote during mock election
12. People arriving at the voting center
STORYLINE:
Some Venezuelans cast mock votes in a rehearsal Sunday, less than a month before the highly anticipated election in which President Nicolás Maduro seeks a third term.
The exercise, largely featuring ruling party supporters and public employees, is technically meant to help voters familiarize themselves with the fingerprint readers and electronic voting machines that will be used on July 28.
The election is shaping up to be the biggest challenge the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela has faced in its 25-year dominance that began with the presidency of the fiery Hugo Chávez.
The party seeks to control all branches of government for six more years, but its base is divided, diminished and disappointed.
Ten candidates, including Maduro, will be on the ballot.
The only contender with a real chance of defeating the president is Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who represents the opposition’s Unitary Platform coalition.
AP Video by Andry Rincon
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