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.
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
AGUILAR","IdentidadCandidato":"0801198704025","CodPartido":9,"NomPartido":"PARTIDO FRENTE<br />
AMPLIO","NumVotos":0,"NumPosicion":7,"NumPosicionActa":7},{"CodCandidato":14219,"NomCandi<br />
dato":"MARLENE ELIZABETH ALVARENGA<br />
CASTELLANOS","IdentidadCandidato":"0703198501047","CodPartido":6,"NomPartido":"PARTIDO<br />
ANTICORRUPCION","NumVotos":0,"NumPosicion":8,"NumPosicionActa":8},{"CodCandidato":3017,"<br />
NomCandidato":"JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ<br />
ALVARADO","IdentidadCandidato":"1301196800305","CodPartido":2,"NomPartido":"PARTIDO<br />
NACIONAL DE <strong>HONDURAS</strong>","NumVotos":102,"NumPosicion":9,"NumPosicionActa":9}]}<br />
FIG 15. JSON received from API.TSE.HN<br />
As shown in the FIG 15, there is an array called<br />
data[“Votos”] containing the information for presidential<br />
candidates at index 1 an 8. Also, the JSON(as shown in FIG<br />
15) provides metadata that was used to tag and search<br />
voting precincts and compare information.<br />
Function calls index /2/ and index /3/ did not return a<br />
valid response as there is a different set of APIs used to pull<br />
data for congress and municipalities. The documentation<br />
available is basically inexistent.<br />
In fact, we observed many timeout issues with API calls and<br />
inconsistent vote count results, in some cases and for<br />
several days we observed an additional count of 20,000<br />
votes in favor of Juan Orlando Hernandez.<br />
AMAZON S3<br />
As we described, all the files are stored in Amazon S3,<br />
however the API and JSON responses the domain name that<br />
is pointing to actas.tse.hn and uses DEFENSE.NET as well<br />
as part of the platform front-end landing page (Amazon<br />
Cloud front).<br />
32 GANAS USA | ganasusa@gmail.com
Change language