COLOMBIA: Observers Find Anomalies In Voting Figures

(RTTNews) - Colombia's Electoral Observation Mission found anomalies in the voting figures of 363 forms in which the results of last Sunday's presidential election were collected. The anomalies correspond to 2.8% of the voting forms since the observers analyzed 13,135 of the 97,663 voting stations installed in the South American country.

According to the mission, the anomalies represent a variation of 12,522 votes - or 0.35% of the vote - of which 796 were apparently eliminated and 11,726 added to the candidates.

"That means that a complete analysis could point out to anomalies in almost 70,000 votes," the mission added.

The investigation was launched after citizen complaints in social networks about the results of the elections in some forms.

The conservative Ivan Duque, who garnered 7.5 million votes, equivalent to 39.14% of the total, and the leftist Gustavo Petro, who obtained 4.8 million votes (25.08%), are expected to face each other in the second round on June 17.