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Sociologist and political scientist Atilio Boron, who provides his opinion on the presidential election in Venezuela and explains important details on the electoral process taking place. teleSUR
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00:00Very quickly, let's start going into a summary of what has been happening so far in Venezuela
00:05during this electoral day.
00:06What are your opinions?
00:07What are your takes?
00:08You are there.
00:09What have you seen so far?
00:10Well, my opinion is that the electoral process went very, very well.
00:20No incidents were reported all across the country.
00:26People stay in the lines.
00:28In some cases, there were long lines and no complaints.
00:33My feeling is that there was a sort of happiness.
00:40They were very, very happy to be able to go to the polls almost once a year, you know.
00:49Since the beginning of the Bolivarian Republic, they went to the polls 30 times.
00:56This is the 31st one, and people are trained, they like that.
01:03My feeling is that now there was a new group of people who have been out of the polls for,
01:11I would say, 10 years perhaps.
01:14We are now returning to the electoral process.
01:17This has to be with all this conflict with the opposition, which did not attend, did
01:23not go to the polls, refused to go to the electoral competition.
01:28That perhaps made that some of the voters were not used with the new machinery, electoral
01:34machinery that they have, the technology.
01:37Today, it's very simple but very accurate.
01:41For a few people, you notice that they were a little bit clumsy in handling the electoral
01:49machine, in which they had to push buttons and so on, especially people who are old.
01:55But the rest, you see, I was a little bit concerned that there may have been some provocations
02:03or people saying nasty words to others, and nothing of that happened, at least in many
02:12of the reports I have been receiving from many states in Venezuela.
02:18So far, it's an outstanding electoral day.
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