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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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a location called INFOP, or a similar place where the ballot<br />

reports were rescanned.<br />

The review included analysis per pixel, image filtering using<br />

digital signal processing techniques, and detecting changes<br />

that compared information with those scanned images and<br />

voting count.<br />

The first set that was sent from the ballot precinct included<br />

12,917 ballot box locations and 5,417 ballot cards collected<br />

and sent by land to INFOP.<br />

BALLOT REPORTS RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM VOTING<br />

PRECINCTS<br />

Each of the ballot report cards were sent directly to all<br />

political parties and to the national tribune of elections. The<br />

precinct sent a scanned copy of the ballot reporting card at a<br />

resolution of 1600x978 pixels attaching the ATX Identifier in<br />

the left-hand corner of the report card (as shown below) and<br />

a time stamp, as show in FIG 1.<br />

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