According to the president, the complaint was filed by what he calls “digital witnesses.” He emphasized that they managed to uncover—through traces left in the metadata of documents uploaded to the internet by the electoral vote-counting software—algorithmic manipulation of the population’s actual vote.
The lawsuit, which was referred to the Council of State, alleges that “the electoral authority downgraded—without sufficient technical justification—the controls for identification, authenticity, integrity, and digital traceability of the E-14 forms (polling station tally sheets) published in 2026, compared to the verifiable model used in 2022.”
It further maintains that this degradation prevents or hinders citizens and the court from reconstructing—with the rigor required by electoral jurisprudence—the correspondence between the digital file, the polling station, the physical tally sheet, the publication sequence, the document’s integrity, and the electoral result.
The charges cited relate to structural unverifiability due to violations of higher-level norms regarding transparency, electronic archiving, quality, document security, and algorithmic transparency, as well as the infringement of the principle of public disclosure and the issue of false justification.
Consequently, the plaintiffs seek the annulment of the declaration of the presidential and vice-presidential election results for the 2026–2030 constitutional term, arguing that the declaration was issued in violation of higher-level norms, involved irregular issuance, and/or met the objective grounds for electoral annulment established in the CPACA (Code of Administrative Procedure and Administrative Litigation).
They also requested that a recount, judicial audit, or technical verification be ordered for the polling stations, zones, locations, municipalities, or departments affected by unverifiability, unjustified discrepancies, or a lack of documentary consistency.
In addition to the interference by third countries in the electoral process—particularly the United States—the Colombian leader insists on accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of interfering in the election results through the use of technological tools that, he claimed, altered public opinion.
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