I don’t doubt that fear of violence kept the vote down.
At this point, though, votes don’t matter. Maduro will game the elections if he has to, or ignore the results. Right now, the only thing which matters is which side has more people who are willing to fight.
In recent hours Daniel has blogged about “The Zero Hour” which is approaching with the mandate of the vote against Maduro’s Communist plan for the country embodied in the Constituent Assembly vote planned for July 30th.