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HONDURAS Elections 2017 - Technical Report

This report addresses the transmission and publication systems used by TSE/Honduras National Tribune of Elections as well as image analysis/forensics found on the JPEG files sent and later published online. We found patterns of upload data, anomalies in terms of signatures, and others that make us believe fraud and systematic manipulation was taking place during this election process.

This report addresses the transmission and publication systems used by TSE/Honduras National Tribune of Elections as well as image analysis/forensics found on the JPEG files sent and later published online. We found patterns of upload data, anomalies in terms of signatures, and others that make us believe fraud and systematic manipulation was taking place during this election process.

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FIG 13. TSE’s HTML pointing to AMAZON AND<br />

JAVASCRIPT TO HANDLE Image Requests.<br />

As the ballot report cards were scanned and stored in<br />

Amazon S3, each file was saved in JPEG format and Amazon<br />

was used to store each precinct information. The ballot<br />

report cards have an associated bar code with a termination<br />

string labeled as 104, 405, and 606 plus the extension “JPG”<br />

(FIG 13). Each report JPEG File contains metadata that can<br />

be extracted with exiftool.<br />

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