Gustavo Petro said that El Espectador had mentioned his complaint about alleged electoral fraud and manipulation of millions of voters —which, according to him, the penal code refers to as "coercion of the voter"— but had not informed about its content. Therefore, he presented his allegations and asked readers to analyze them. Petro asked the registrar, in response to a legal action he had filed, why 97% of the PDF E14 forms published online by the private counting firm Thomas Gregg and Sons did not have a Hash code, despite Petro stating that he had requested it as head of State and that it had also been requested by electoral observers. He claimed that this code prevented the documents from being modified and that it had been used in his presidential election, but had been removed in subsequent elections. He also asked whether the upcoming local elections would take place without that protection. Furthermore, he argued that a forensic statistical analysis of all the polling stations had found mathematical patterns, rather than randomness, in tens of thousands of consecutive tables. He stated that the Testigos Digitales investigation —a group that, according to him, was made up of 75,000 people with knowledge of statistics and programming— had detected patterns in 1,350 voting stations, and that experts had corroborated them. He added that the analysis had utilized the Wald-Wolfowitz model, or runs test. Petro accused the registrar of lying by claiming that the PDF E14 forms had a Hash code. According to Petro, only an alphanumeric code identifying the forms had been added, but it did not prevent them from being modified, which he claimed was against the law. He also asked why the registrar had not responded to the public statement made by Donald Trump, who, according to Petro, had said that candidate Abelardo de la Espriella had won the elections thanks to him. Petro inquired whether that statement from a head of State constituted evidence against the registrar and his management. He requested that the registrar respond publicly or in the legal proceedings. #Colombia #FraudeElectoral #Democracia (translated)
