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More than 78% of the 18.9 million Venezuelans registered voted in Sunday's presidential election, Lucena said.
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The head of the electoral commission, Tibisay Lucena, said the candidates would have to register for the race by Monday.
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He accused opposition protesters of attacking government clinics and the house of electoral council President Tibisay Lucena, without offering details.
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Lucena, the council president, suggested Capriles take his complaints to other channels presumably the Supreme Court, which is stacked with Chavista sympathizers.
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The lawsuit was filed by the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), Luis Inacio Lucena Adams, to a federal court in the state of Goias.
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Some people have speculated Venezuela will not be ready to organize the vote in time, but elections council chief Tibisay Lucena said the country's electronic voting system was fully prepared.
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The country saw one of its high participation rates in decades Sunday, with almost 81% of voters going to the polls, according to Tibisay Lucena, president of the National Electoral Council.
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Lucena announced the date on state television, appearing in a small inset as the main picture showed people filing past Chavez's coffin at the military academy in Caracas, where his body has lain in state since Wednesday.
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The council's president, Tibisay Lucena, told AFP news agency that the expanded audit was not a recount but would cover all ballot boxes not audited on election day by reviewing a sample two-thirds of them over the next month.
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