# Comparing hashes of E-14 election forms from Colombia’s Registry

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069043053281649002
- Source account: [@petrogustavo](https://x.com/petrogustavo)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 4:22
- Published: 2026-06-22
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/es/comparaci%C3%B3n-de-hashes-de-formularios-e-14-de-la-registradur%C3%ADa.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry) In this video I'm going to show you how, when downloading the E- 14s from the Registrar's website, the hash locks are changed.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=12) Here are several documents we've found with irregularities, but I'm going to give you the example of just one because it has already been modified. When it was downloaded, we realized that the hash lock had been modified. So, I'm going to show you with the first one I downloaded at 6: 13 p.m. Look at the document name,

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=37) letters and numbers. Let's double- click it. And here, what can we see?

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=41) Well, the Registrar's Office is reporting a non- digitized page. And on the se… on the second page, it shows us the signatures. Well, this was the first document I downloaded. The second docume… document, which was when I logged in again to the delegates' E- 14, the option that appears on the

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=70) registraduria.gov.co website, I downloaded it to this folder called" revision." So, you can see that letters and numbers appear, but it has exactly the same initial name. Look at it, you can compare them. What is the difference? That we are going to double- click it and, abracadabra!

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=92) now the votes have indeed appeared with the signatures. So, the votes appear and this time the signatures are there, the ones we had initially seen, as you can see here.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=109) But the only difference is that the second document I downloaded, in fact, at… uh…

[1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=114) 8: 42, just a few minutes ago, has the same name, but the second one shows the votes.

[2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=127) How do we know if the hash lock was modified or not?

[2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=132) Well, So we're going to go here to PowerShell and we're going to type Get- FileHash, FileHash, space, and we're going to go to the first one.

[2:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=152) We're going to do... uh... right- click, we're going to click Copy as path.

[2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=158) And we're going to paste it in PowerShell after a space, we press enter. Here we can capture the hash lock of the first document we downloaded at 6: 13 p.m.

[2:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=168) Now we repeat exactly the same step, but with the document that has the same name, but downloaded at 8: 42.

[3:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=181) We right- click, we also click Copy as path, we go back to PowerShell and we're going to enter the same command: Get- FileHash.

[3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=194) Space, we copy it and... guess what? The hash is different. The hash that we initially downloaded at 6: 13 is totally different from the hash that we downloaded at 8: 42 p.m.

[3:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=218) This means the following, and the question for the registrar is: When you say that the hash locks are not modified, what is it you intend to inform the public? Because, Mr. Registrar, welcome to the 21st- century citizenry, the citizenry that understands information technology and we know what it is that you are doing.

[4:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/obqXQZdeVzkn/en/comparing-hashes-of-e-14-election-forms-from-colombia-s-registry?t=249) And we can… and we can see, and we can realize that you are lying to us when you say that the hash lock is not modified.