Little-known paper sheets are key to declaring victory in Venezuela's election

Venezuela is tense. Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s main opposition coalition both claim that they won Sunday’s presidential election. The national electoral authority proclaimed Maduro the winner. The opposition represented by Edmundo González said it has evidence to the contrary. Electoral authorities installed more than 30,000 voting machines. By law the opposition had the right to have representatives at all voting centers. But not all were allowed in on Sunday or were ousted before polls closed. After those polls close, Venezuela’s electronic voting machines can print sheets tallying all the votes that each counted. Experts say that the best way to clear up the dispute is to release those sheets. But the National Electoral Council has not done so.