[berdario]

I was curious to check the National Electoral Council website, to get their latest tally straight from the source...

http://www.cne.gov.ve/

And the website is currently not loading. They might simply be struggling to keep up with traffic, but being under some kind of "cyber attack" is also plausible

[ARandomerDude]

This would also be fairly trivial to fake if you wanted to appear to be under attack.

[bilbo0s]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you wouldn't have to fake anything if you just didn't use electronic voting.

Simply give a ballot to every voter and have them fill it out. Especially nowadays, as pretty much every election in every nation will come under cyber attack precisely because they are using electronic voting and hackers can manipulate the votes.

If I were being ungenerous, I would say all the politicians want electronic voting everywhere because they can manipulate it with cyber attacks.

[burnished]

The ungenerous take does not seem like a natural choice, its choosing to make yourself a little fish in a big pond, unless I'm missing something that makes it more appealing than traditional 'imaginative' means of gaining political power?

[glenstein]

Yeah but I think this is the point where you have to take the pro-evidence side. Speculation with increasingly complex assumptions have to overcome a default assumption in favor of simplicity, and it requires evidence to overcome that default assumption.

In this case I would say the simpler assumptions are just that they did steal the election and that the website is down due to global traffic.

[rafaelm]

It's cne.gob.ve, and that doesn't work either. They want us to believe that because the website is down, the whole system that counts the votes is down. Hey, maybe the votes are counted in WordPress...