
Proposal for Electoral Oversight to Ensure Clean Elections in Bolivia
Introduction
Good evening, afternoon, or morning, Bolivians worldwide, depending on your location. To all bunkers, a warm embrace. While Bolivia faces blockades, unrest, detentions, threats of clashes in La Paz, destruction of public property, and attacks on passersby, The Bunker dreams of clean elections. Today, with Juan Pueblo, we present a computational electoral oversight system to ensure transparency for the August 17, 2025, elections. This effort supports the third citizen primaries, exclusive to the opposition, starting in three days (May 20). Join as an activist at 76809175. Don’t give up—together, we’ll change Bolivia!
Context: National Crisis and Fight for Electoral Transparency
Bolivia is in turmoil:
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Current Situation: Blockades in several regions, clashes in La Paz, destruction of public property, and assaults on those not supporting protests, largely led by MAS-aligned groups.
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MAS Division: The Movement Toward Socialism is split into three factions (arcista, evista, and Andrónico Rodríguez’s Movimiento Tercer Sistema), all excluded from The Bunker’s opposition primaries.
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The Bunker’s Goal: Ensure clean elections through a computational oversight system to detect fraud, complementing the primaries to select a unified opposition candidate.
Electoral Oversight Proposal: Computational System
Juan Pueblo introduced a computational oversight system integrated into the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE)’s official system to automatically detect fraud. Key details:
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Origin: Developed from monitoring the last four elections (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024), identifying a critical, non-digitized data point: the number of ballots in the urn.
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Complementarity: Complements, not competes with, table-level oversight by volunteers, offering logistical and coverage advantages.
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Advantages of the Computational System:
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Low Logistics: Requires only five technicians for five days, compared to 35,000 volunteers for table oversight.
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Full Coverage: Covers 100% of polling stations, including MAS-strongholds, vs. 50-70% for table oversight.
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Low Cost: Inexpensive implementation, unlike the high cost of mobilizing volunteers.
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Automatic Detection: Identifies frauds like “ballot cutting” (more votes than ballots) or “votes without ballots” via an algorithm in the official system.
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Frauds Addressed: Table oversight tackles voter registry fraud (50% coverage), while the computational system detects accounting manipulations in 100% of stations.
Background: Flaws in the Electoral System
The current electoral system has significant vulnerabilities:
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Upgraded Equipment: In October 2020, the TSE replaced equipment and software used in the 2019 fraud. The new software, from Recom Digital (UK), was used in 2020, 2021, and 2024, and will be used in 2025.
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Persistent Frauds: Despite upgrades, The Bunker documented frauds in 2020, 2021, and 2024 (including judicial elections), with issues like:
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More voters than registered in a station.
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Computational errors mirroring 2019’s fraud.
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Lack of Accountability: Political parties, focused on power quotas, failed to denounce these frauds.
Key Concepts of the Oversight System
The system relies on universal electoral principles:
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Core Formula: One ballot generates one vote for president and one for uninominal deputy, whether valid, blank, or null.
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Example: 10,526 ballots in the urn must yield 10,526 votes for president and 10,526 for deputy, with no discrepancies.
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Consistency: The number of ballots in the urn must match votes cast for both positions, at the station, municipal, or national level.
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Critical Data: The number of ballots in the urn, recorded by poll workers, is not digitized or publicly shown, hiding key fraud-detection information.
Issue: Non-Digitized Data
The TSE fails to digitize essential act data:
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Ballots in the Urn: Poll workers record ballots extracted (e.g., 210 in a station with 220 registered voters), but this isn’t entered into the database.
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Unused Ballots: Recorded (e.g., 10 unused), but not digitized, hindering automatic checks.
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Signatories on the Voter List: In 2019, the number of voters signing the registry was compared to ballots. Since 2020, this was dropped, weakening registry oversight.
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Fraud Example: In act 25,356, 210 ballots resulted in 207 presidential votes (-3) and 214 deputy votes (+4), showing manipulation.
Specific Proposal
The Bunker urges the TSE to:
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Digitize Key Data: Include in the database:
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Number of ballots in the urn.
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Unused ballots.
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Signatories on the voter list (reinstate 2019 practice).
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Automatic Algorithm: Develop an algorithm to scan 35,000 acts in two minutes, detecting discrepancies between ballots and votes.
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Dual Verification: Cross-check:
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Ballots in the urn vs. voter list signatories.
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Used + unused ballots vs. registered voters.
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Impact: Automatically detect frauds like added or removed votes, bypassing manual reviews.
Evidence of Fraud
Analysis of act 25,356 shows:
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Inconsistency: 210 ballots produced 207 presidential votes (-3) and 214 deputy votes (+4), indicating computational tampering.
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Comparison: Other acts in the same polling center (25,350-25,360) are consistent (e.g., 210 votes for both), highlighting act 25,356’s irregularity.
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Solution: Digitizing ballot data would enable automatic detection of such “fake acts.”
Publication and Next Steps
The Bunker is documenting its efforts:
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Third Book: A volume on electoral fraud, with evidence from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2024, and oversight system details, available in 30 days (around June 15, 2025).
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Second Book: On corruption, distribution begins May 19, 2025.
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Continuation: On Monday, May 19, at 20:00, The Bunker will resume with Juan Pueblo, discussing the algorithm and digitization.
Call to Action
The Bunker calls for:
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Support the Primaries: Three days until the opposition primaries (May 20); join via 76809175.
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Demand Transparency: Pressure the TSE and parties to digitize all act data.
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Electoral Oversight: Volunteer for table oversight or support the computational system.
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Buy the Books: Purchase the volumes to fund the fight for clean elections.
Conclusion
Amid Bolivia’s chaos, The Bunker proposes a computational oversight system to ensure transparent elections, supporting opposition-only primaries that exclude MAS’s 20-year legacy. Digitizing ballots and using an algorithm will detect fraud, ensuring every vote counts. The primaries begin in three days, and the fraud book arrives in 30 days. Join at +591 76809175, share this fight, and let’s build the third republic. See you Monday at 20:00! Thank you, Bolivians worldwide, and God bless Bolivia.
The Bunker’s Values
We reject gender ideology, defend the sacred family, are pro-life, and uphold values of struggle and patriotism. We are bunkers, children of Bolivia, a great nation that needs us. Let’s unite voices and forces!