Explainer: What is happening with Venezuela's contested election?

Voters line up outside a polling station during presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro claimed victory in the country's presidential election in the early hours of Monday morning, even as the country's opposition said its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez was the victor and it had the polling to prove it.

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE COUNT?