Venezuelans Vote Peacefully, if Not Hopefully<br />The opposition candidate for governor of Miranda, Carlos Ocariz, was among them: He, too, used to vote at the school in El Llanito<br />but was being forced to vote on Sunday in Barrio La Unión.<br />But the opposition accused the government of trying to confuse voters or suppress the vote by relocating more than 200 voting sites in recent days and printing ballots<br />that included the names of opposition candidates who had lost in the primaries.<br />Miranda said that The worst thing is to stay at home,<br />With this argument in mind, opposition factions urged supporters to abstain from voting, arguing<br />that the election was a sham and that participation would only validate Mr. Maduro’s authoritarian political program.<br />They feared that Mr. Maduro, even if his party was soundly defeated across the country, would somehow commit fraud in the vote count.<br />Rosa Colón, 70, said she was "100 percent" in support of Mr. Rodriguez, the candidate of Mr. Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
