Colombia Vote Review Finds No Fraud With 99.94% Match to Preliminary Count
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Updated · Colombia One · Jun 2
Colombia Vote Review Finds No Fraud With 99.94% Match to Preliminary Count
2 articles · Updated · Colombia One · Jun 2
Summary
99.98% of Colombia’s scrutiny process was completed without irregularities, and election authorities said the formal review matched the preliminary count by 99.94%.
Only 33 of more than 122,000 polling stations remained pending, with the National Civil Registry blaming weather delays in transporting electoral materials.
The result undercuts President Gustavo Petro’s doubts about the election-night tally, which he had said he would accept only after the judge-led scrutiny ended.
Sunday’s preliminary count put Abelardo de la Espriella at 10,361,499 votes and Ivan Cepeda at 9,688,361, sending both to a June 21 presidential runoff.
Election officials said they are already preparing that runoff with expanded juror training and party audits, while outside monitors said they had seen no evidence of systematic fraud.