Electoral Audit OAS Bolivia Val Revision OAS Bolivia The project aims to implement an electoral integrity analysis/audit that is to include, among other aspects, the verification of vote counts, statistical analyses, as well as verification of the process and the chain of custody. The aim is to ensure an exercise is sufficiently serious and rigorous in order to certificate whether the election results are to be seen as credible. The results of the audit are to be regarded as binding upon the parties to the process.

This process will involve a limited audit of the established systems for the processing of electoral vote counts, which includes the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP by its Spanish acronym) and the process carried out for the vote count and tabulation of the official results in each one of the nine Departmental Electoral Tribunals (TED by their Spanish acronym); including the processing, consolidation and publication of the results.The team to carry out the audit will be made up of approximately 30 electoral experts from different countries, who will begin their deployment on the ground on Thursday, October 31. The auditors, in accordance with best practices in the field, will not make any statements to the press in the course of their work in Bolivia. The audit is planned to be carried out over the course of 12 days beginning October 31, 2019.

The organization OAS (Organization of American States) is a well-known counterpart for Sida that has shown the ability to deliver results. Based on previous work with OAS, Sida assesses that the organization has sufficient capacity and prerequisites to carry out the audit. 

The contribution is expected to respond well to Sweden's Strategy for Development Cooperation for Bolivia 2016-2020, as well as human rights, democracy and the rule of law, as the strategy directs Sweden to strengthen the democratic process in the country. Projektet syftar till att genomföra en revision och analys av den valprocess som ägde rum i Bolivia den 20 oktober 2019. Arbetet ska  bland annat ska inkludera verifiering av rösträkningen, statistiska analyser, samt verifiering av valprocessen. Detta i syfte att säkerställa och avgöra huruvida valresultatet är trovärdigt. Granskningens resultat ska anses vara bindande för båda parter.

Denna process kommer att innefatta en begränsad granskning av systemen för rösträkning, vilket inkluderar det preliminära valresultatöverföringssystemet (TREP med dess spanska förkortning), och den valprocess som genomförts i var och en av de nio regionala valdomstolarna (TED enligt deras spanska förkortningar); inklusive bearbetning, konsolidering och publicering av resultaten. Gruppen som kommer att utföra granskningen kommer att bestå av cirka 30 valexperter från olika länder, vilka kommer att påbörja arbetet torsdagen den 31 oktober. I enlighet med praxis kommer revisorerna inte att lämna några uttalanden till pressen under sitt arbete i Bolivia. Revisionen planeras genomföras under 12 dagar från och med den 31 oktober 2019.

Organisationen OAS (Organization of American States) är en känd aktör för Sida som har visat förmåga att leverera resultat. Sida bedömer utifrån tidigare arbete med  OAS  att organisationen har tillräcklig kapacitet och förutsättningar för att genomföra revisionen. 

Insatsen bedöms överensstämma väl med den svenska strategi för utvecklingssamarbete med Bolivia 2016-2020, särskilt i fråga om mänskliga rättigheter, demokrati och lagstyre, särskilt stadgandet att Sveriges ska bidra till att stärka den demokratiska processen i landet. The objective of this independent analysis/audit is to examine the extent to which the election process and vote count were characterized by transparency and legitimacy, and to determine whether the election results from the elections on 20 October can be said to be correct. Its results shall be binding on the parties. In this way, the donors and Sweden will contribute to provide clarity about what took place from the closing of the polling stations on Sunday 20 October to the publication of the final election results and determine whether the latter can be considered correct. Should the audit lead to the resumption of the election process, funds from the effort can also be used for election observation missions aimed at it, provided that the OAS presents a separate application for this purpose and that an addendum to the agreement is made.