Venezuela Election Details
Equipped with over 16 million registered voters, Venezuelans move towards new objectives in the preparatory stage of presidential elections this coming December.

Preliminary figures released today by the National Electoral Council (NEC) were set at 16 million 81 thousand 791 potential voters in which 15 million 919 thousand 261 are Venezuelans and 162 thousand 530 foreigners.

Regarding the latter, NEC authorities recalled that their registration rights were being of legal age with more than 10 years of residence. However, those can only vote at state level and are excluded from presidential elections.

However, Venezuelans living abroad also have the right to vote. Registered figures are 56 thousand and may exercise their right in consulates and embassies that have set up ballot boxes.

Specialists pointed out that efforts have been made these past weeks to bring the Electoral Registry as close as possible for the population in the 335 municipalities of the country.

Only in the month of August and until September 4, a date limit established by NEC, 423,340 new registrations were made and 397,344 changes of address.

According to figures supplied by the election authorities, five states surpassed the million potential voters where first place is Zulia (one million 962 thousand 958), followed by Miranda (one million 670 thousand 847) and the Capital District (one million 425 thousand 735).