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Five categories, never conflated

The recorded numbers do not reflect the votes cast.

Unequal media access, repression, illegal financing, vote buying, misuse of state resources.

Cyberattacks, hack-and-leak, covert foreign financing, impersonation of media or institutions by a foreign state or proxy.

Troll farms, fake local-media networks, covert political ads, coordinated inauthentic amplification — foreign or domestic.

Patterns in the data worth examining — explicitly not proof of fraud.

A finding sits in exactly one category. Colors and icons carry the same meaning everywhere on the site.

From the case files

The clearest test of a trustworthy record is whether it can hold both statements at once.

Process violationsCorroborated
Incumbency and government communication created an uneven campaign environment.
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The EU mission identified advantages linked to the sitting president's office, including campaign-period presidential activity and government advertising. Its priority recommendations called for limiting government and presidential activity to current affairs or emergencies and strengthening controls on institutional communication. These imbalances matter even though observers found election-day voting and counting transparent.
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Information operationsCorroborated
Fraud narratives circulated before and after the runoff without objective support in the records observers reviewed.
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The losing ticket alleged fraud on election night, and fraud narratives circulated through the campaign. EU and OAS observers tested the allegations against direct observation, publication systems and tally-sheet images and did not find supporting evidence.
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Result falsificationDebunked
Observer review found no evidence that questioned tally sheets were changed in the computerized result.
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The OAS mission randomly selected questioned tally-sheet images and compared them with the CNE results system without finding irregularities or inconsistencies. The EU mission likewise found no objective elements supporting fraud accusations after observing both rounds and the post-election period.
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Statistical anomaliesDebunked
A small number of ink-transfer cases did not amount to systematic ballot invalidation.
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The OAS observed isolated cases where ink marked a folded ballot, but nearly all were resolved at the polling board in front of both tickets' representatives. It found very few affected ballots, no systematic intent and no scale capable of affecting the result.
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