Current Events > Overwhelming evidence that the Bolivia election was rigged

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This is the election where the winner stacked the courts to abolish term limits and then won a 4th term in an unusual election before fleeing the country when the army said "enough is enough".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50685335

An independent international audit of Bolivia's disputed election in October has detailed "deliberate" and "malicious" efforts to rig the vote in favour of then-President Evo Morales.

The Organization of American States (OAS) said the measures included hidden servers and falsified signatures.

According to the OAS, the "intentional manipulation" and "serious irregularities" included "changes in the minutes and the falsification of the signatures of poll officials", making it impossible to validate the official results of the 20 October vote.

In the processing of the results, it said in the 95-page final report (in Spanish), the data was redirected to two hidden servers and not controlled by officials at the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, opening the way for the manipulation of data.
There was also "loss of sensitive material [and] a significant number of errors".

"Based on the overwhelming evidence found," the regional body said, "what can be affirmed is that there has been a series of intentional operations aimed at altering the will expressed at the polls."

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