The Official Unofficial Record

In a protest crowd, people hold up long papers that look like receipts and Venezuelan flags

Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images 

How do you count almost 12 million votes if you’re not the government? This week, we bring you the extraordinary story of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who created the only verifiable public record of votes in their presidential election — and other stories of people trying to correct the official record with their own versions.

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