President Nicolás Maduro, rejecting the will of Venezuelan voters, has declared victory in one of the most brazenly stolen elections in recent times.

How do we know this? Election workers were recorded on cellphones in many precincts announcing the results out loud before sending in each tally to the central election committee. The opposition says it has obtained 73 per cent of the tallies, which show a total of 2.75 million votes for Maduro and 6.27 million for opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez.