The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador, Domingo Paredes , revealed on Sunday that it has detected an attempt to penetrate your computer system while the Ecuadorians go to the polls to elect President , Vice President and legislators.”I could not give more details, it is under investigation,” Paredes said Efe, stating that, in any case, are showing “that there is no control of the situation “and that the software developed is “highly confident”. The head of the CNE declared that entity investigating who tried to break into the system, something that happened this morning , he explained. He added that there have been also other “acts of God”, but noted that “there is no reason to generalize or scandalized” because “everything is under control.”
Paredes said in an Ecuadorian province detected in one of the ballot boxes, “a group of records which are already stressed to a political organization for a particular candidate, non-government. ”
“These are events that are also part of something that had already predicted: sabotage attempts , to interfere with the normal development of the electoral process to delegitimize the results, “he said.
The highest electoral authority denied “absolutely ░ the possibility of fraud.
“They know those trying to harm the electoral process will be quite severe actions to identify them , “he said.
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