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RE: Political Unrest Expected To Worsen As Venezuela Prepares For Vote On Rewrite Of Constitution

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According to the news here in Chile, just a 9% of the voting population voted, and 25% of them voted blank, since they were public employees who considered the process fraudulent. According to Capriles, they needed 15% of votes for the process to be valid.

http://www.latercera.com/noticia/solo-9-del-padron-electoral-voto-hoy-venezuela-segun-oposicion/
https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/mundo/venezuela/politica/venezuela-la-oposicion-cuenta-hoy-14-muertos/2017-07-29/173124.html

I saw a lot of support for the process via Twitter, hashtag #VenezuelaVotaHoy. There are some videos and pictures of masses of people in the voting premises. But anyways, Twitter is not accurate in terms of representation, less the hashtag.

Something called my attention, this dumbass on Twitter posted this picture, comparing the participation in this constitutional assembly in Venezuela with our recent primary elections in Chile. Here in Chile is quite common that a few people care about primaries (since not all political parties or candidates participate), but STILL we got a higher percentage of participation than them, it was 13%, and Chile today is much less politized than Venezuela, so the contexts are quite different.

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prensaopal Prensa OPAL Chile tweeted @ 30 Jul 2017 - 20:45 UTC

LA IMAGEN DEL DÍA...
#VenezuelaVotaHoy https://t.co/H15BKgx1tz

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