In his admission that Smartmatic software can be manipulated, company CEO Antonio “Mugica declined to directly answer whether the manipulated turnout numbers changed the result of the election,” the Guardian reports.

“The electoral council president, Tibisay Lucena, put the turnout at 41.53%, or 8,089,320 people, but members of the opposition said they believed between 2 million and 3 million people had voted and one well-respected independent analysis put the number at 3.6 million,” according to the Guardian.

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1. Venezuela poll turnout figures ‘manipulated by at least 1m votes’

1. Did Smartmatic admit that the voting system it provides is not foolproof and was in fact manipulated in the elections to write a new constitution in Venezuela, after claiming in the past that Smartmatic’s Voting system was the most secure system in the world?

2. Why did a sympathetic newspaper note that Mugica declined “to directly answer whether the manipulated turnout numbers changed the result of the election”?

3. What was Mugica evading?