On July 23, 2024, the President General of GOUV, Mr. Marcos Bãdãrãu, arrived in Caracas to begin his activities as an international observer of the Venezuelan presidential elections. On the 25th, the President General was summoned by the National Electoral Council (CNE) for his accreditation as the international observer of the elections, representing Romania.
The event was attended by more than 900 other international observers from more than 110 different countries. Several institutions, organizations and diplomatic missions were invited for international observation. The CNE presentation included details about the improvement of elections over the years and the level of technology applied in the electoral process. It also included the first introduction to the electoral system and details of security, institutionalization and modernization of the electoral system.
The CNE presented the new electronic voting machines with the hardware description, presenting a robust, modern, modular electronic voting machine, with an open architecture, with stability to extend its useful life and with energy support. In addition, he presented a description of all other equipment, such as the integrated authentication device, which has a compact, robust and resistant design for exhaustive use, having a high-resistance keyboard and with control over the device’s handling system, presenting also passive interconnect cables (without internal circuits).
Regarding the internal administrative system, the CNE showed gender equality (considering women and men) with 2021 being a year in which list positions comprised 49.13% women and 50.87% men and nominal positions with 46.56 % women and 53.44% men. The administrative, logistical and technical bodies of the CNE which are made up of the electoral committee which is the administrative body made up of General Directorates and National Offices, the National Logistics Committee which is the logistical body of interinstitutional relations with external entities and the General Directorates and Workshops National, the Technological Committee, which is the technical body formed by electoral IT specialists.
This year the international infrastructure included 85 countries, where 104 diplomatic missions were stages for 195 electronic months so that Venezuelan citizens abroad could vote and exercise their rights as citizens. In addition, the transmission means have 12,141 voting centers with ease, 1290 satellite antennas, 6,137 Dial Ups, 10,473 GSM and 1,009 Contingency Transmission Centers, making elections transparent and presenting the entire execution and counting process to the public. All authorship stages were also presented, which in total are 17, audits that take place before, during and after the elections, promulgating the Venezuelan electoral system as one of the safest in the world.