A voter submitting his ballot in Venezuela's 2017 constituent assembly election. (Photo - Miguel Gutierrez/EPA/Shutterstock)
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LIVE: Venezuela Elections
Venezuelans throughout the world are taking to polling stations in order to elect the nation's new president in the first presidential election since 2018. Incumbent Nicolas Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela is facing off against Edmundo González, the presidential candidate for the Unitary Platform, a political alliance between a number of opposition parties in Venezuela with the sole intention to depose Maduro and restore Venezuela's democratic process.