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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 6. INFOP Ballot <strong>Report</strong> Card without Security<br />

Features (Watermarks) transmitted<br />

As shown here, any person can try different image filters<br />

from other sources or the ones from this site, and in a great<br />

majority of cases all the INFOP scanned images have all the<br />

security features removed or impossible to detect. These<br />

types of changes that were made to the image makes it very<br />

difficult and impossible to validate and claim any<br />

authenticity.<br />

Any alteration, changes, or modifications made to the ballot<br />

report card from this point forward is now easy to be<br />

performed and changes are harder to be noticed.<br />

As it is observed in the above ballot report card (“Acta”) and<br />

after applying a filter called “Level Sweep” with the<br />

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