High voter turnout reported in elections
From Petare, our special envoy Yunus Soner updates us on how the electoral process is going. teleSUR
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00:00We continue on Tel Aviv with the Venezuelan presidential elections.
00:10Let's go now live to our special envoy, Yunus Soner, for more details of what is happening
00:15in Petare.
00:16Welcome back, Yunus.
00:17What can you tell us from Petare?
00:19Hello, good afternoon from the Caracas, Venezuela, from the neighborhood of Petare, the college
00:29of Jose Jesus de Arrocha, where we are right now, is one of the 30,000 voting centers here
00:38over all the country.
00:42The voting day has started with huge participation, with hundreds of people queuing in front of
00:49the door, but as the heat has gone a bit up, it's midday here, it's quite a hot day, so
00:57we have a little bit less people attending right now, but we are told by the representatives
01:02of this electoral center that in the afternoon the numbers of people voting will go up again.
01:10So I might invite you to let's take a look together how this voting process exactly works,
01:16because this is really a different system they have here in Venezuela.
01:21So we enter here the voting room or voting table, and if you are a citizen, the first
01:30thing you do is to approach this table.
01:34Here you present your credentials, your ID, and you deliver a fingerprint.
01:41And here you see the screen that is waiting for you in the next step.
01:47This is the screen of all candidates and the political parties that support them.
01:53This is important because that's the reason why, for instance, Nicolás Maduro is several
01:57times on the screen, because there are several political parties that support his coalition
02:03of the Great Patriotic Poll.
02:05Same goes with a lesser amount of parties, for instance, for the oppositional candidate
02:10Edmundo González.
02:13So the next step you take is you go behind this place.
02:18We are not allowed to film what's behind it, but I can tell you what is there.
02:23There is the voting machine.
02:26That's where the magic is.
02:28There you have a touch screen.
02:30You have a touch screen and you choose there on which candidate you want to vote for.
02:36And after that, you get a paper receipt.
02:39And this paper receipt confirms that your vote has been registered and tells you that
02:44it's registered for the candidate that you have chosen.
02:48And that paper receipt then goes into this cage as a secondary safety registry.
02:57And then you sign here and finish this process of 25 seconds approximately.
03:03Now, the most important point is here the following.
03:07The counting does not happen via these papers, but by the machine, which is connected to
03:15the central servers at the National Electoral Council.
03:20This is a very safe...
03:21We've seen we lost contact with Junot Siner.
03:30We're going to stay in touch with him in upcoming news brief for all the details we're getting
03:33live from the ground in Caracas, in Venezuela, as the election day moves forward.