US Calls for Venezuela to Release Voting Records After Maduro Claims Victory

The opposition says it won 70 percent of the vote, ’the largest margin of victory' in nation’s history.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado (R) talks to the media, accompanied by opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, following the presidential election results in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29, 2024. Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images

The United States has called on Venezuela to release data from its July 28 election.

The Biden administration called for Venezuela’s National Electoral Council to publish a tabulation of the votes from the precincts.