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848: The Official Unofficial Record

2024/11/24
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Ana Vanessa Herrero
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Ira Glass
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Kelly Weill
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Maria
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Nancy Updike
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六百K组织者
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Ana Vanessa Herrero是一位报道委内瑞拉选举的记者。她指出，委内瑞拉选举委员会在宣布结果时只公布了得票百分比，而没有公布具体票数，这与以往的选举做法不同，引发了质疑。六百K组织者解释了反对派是如何组织和实施民间计票计划的，他们招募了大量志愿者，并在全国各地设立了秘密地点收集和统计选票数据。Maria是一位参与六百K计划的志愿者，她讲述了在投票站担任见证人的经历，以及如何与选举官员和军人周旋以确保计票过程的合法性。Nancy Updike则从宏观角度描述了整个选举过程，以及反对派为确保选举结果的透明度所做的努力。

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Venezuelans used a network of 600,000 volunteers to collect paper copies of vote totals from voting centers, ensuring a fair and verifiable public record of the election results.
  • 600,000 volunteers collected paper copies of vote totals.
  • Results were published on a website accessible to anyone.
  • The effort aimed to prove the opposition's victory beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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How do you count almost 12 million votes if you’re not the government? This week, we bring you the extraordinary story of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who created the only verifiable public record of votes in their presidential election — and other stories of people trying to correct the official record with their own versions.

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  • Prologue: Host Ira Glass sets us up for Nancy Updike’s insider account of the recent presidential election in Venezuela. The story is an incredible national drama that plays out in thousands of polling stations across the country, with regular people trying to ensure a fair vote count that everyone can agree on. (2 minutes)
  • Act One: Producer Nancy Updike tells the story of the people of Venezuela trying to prove who won their recent presidential election beyond a shadow of a doubt. (22 minutes)
  • Act Two: Host Ira Glass spent America’s presidential election in the swing state of Michigan, where he found very little dispute over the ballot count from Republican poll challengers in Detroit now that they are doing the counting themselves. (8 minutes)
  • Act Three: This story is about a creepy and dangerous creature that does all kinds of terrible things. It’s also about someone trying to set the record straight on those exact assumptions about this notorious creature. (9 minutes)

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