Venezuela’s voting machines ready for elections

Caracas, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina) The preparation of the voting machines for the November 21 elections in Venezuela is on Tuesday at 79.4 percent, the National Electoral Council (CNE) informed.

To date, 19 of the country’s 23 states have the technological equipment that will be used in the regional and municipal elections, the top electoral entity stated in a press release.

A total of 750 CNE operators are working on configuring and calibrating those equipment that will issue the automated vote.

The verification of the technological instruments to vote and the execution of functioning tests in both, the voting machines and the Integrated Authentication System, took place on Monday without any incident, the electoral entity pointed out.

Venezuela will elect on November 21 the country’s 23 governors and 335 mayors, as well as the members of regional and municipal legislative councils.