Recordings appear to capture electoral official discussing altered tally sheets.
On Thursday, Honduran Public Ministry spokesperson Yuri Mora presented three new audio recordings that reveal irregularities during the Nov. 30 elections.
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In the recordings, which will be closely examined by the Electoral Crimes Unit, a female voice — apparently that of Cossette Lopez, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) — is heard expressing concern about the leak of the calls and the complaints filed by human rights organizations.
In one portion of the audio, the woman reacts in fear when the door to the room where she is located suddenly opens. “You know the instruction: one yes, one no, one yes, one no,” the female voice says, referring to the way electoral tally sheets were being handled. She then adds that there are some tally sheets “that they sent to ‘smudge.’ Those are the ones that matter to us.”
In the last of the released audio clips, she is heard giving instructions about what appears to be a cover story related to the credentials, asking the other person what they will say when questioned about them. “If they find out, we’re fried,” the woman concludes.
📍⚠️🔴#ELECCIONES2025~ Miroslava Cerpas, comisionada presidenta del Sistema Nacional de Emergencias 911, explicó a https://t.co/2aombOjlZd el patrón criminal con el que se habría intimidado a la población para condicionar el voto y favorecer al Partido Nacional, un comportamiento… pic.twitter.com/U4Iz6ziAhp
— Criterio.hn (@criteriohn) December 11, 2025
The text reads, “Miroslava Cerpas, president commissioner of the National 911 Emergency System, explained to Criterio the criminal pattern with which the population was intimidated to condition the vote and favor the National Party, a behavior that, she said, coincided with the pardon of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez. Cerpas presented to the Public Ministry 892 records with alleged evidence that would constitute electoral crimes, among them, preventing the exercise of suffrage, sabotaging the count, withholding identities and expelling polling station members to transmit records under the control of criminal groups. She warned that the Prosecutor’s Office should not investigate these events in isolation but as part of a coordinated plan in which organized crime operated at the national level and with possible intellectual authorship.“
In response to the revelations, Attorney General Johel Zelaya said the Public Ministry will continue supporting the work of the Electoral Crimes Unit. “The Public Ministry would never participate in planting fake audio… The truth reveals itself,” he stated.
The CNE has not yet issued the results of the general elections carried out on Nov. 30. Since then, Honduran electoral authorities have failed to dispel allegations of fraud that would benefit the right-wing presidential candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, Luis Redondo, president of the Permanent Commission of the Honduran National Congress, condemned U.S. interference in the 2025 electoral process, which has also been accompanied by pressure from organized crime.
CNE co-director Lino Tomas Mendoza announced that the institution will begin a special review on Saturday of 2,773 tally sheets showing inconsistencies. This review could tip the balance in determining the president-elect after an election in which the two conservative candidates unexpectedly appeared at the top of the results.
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Honduras: The National Emergency System delivered conclusive evidence to the Public Prosecutor’s Office denouncing an intimidation campaign against free voting with the involvement of organized crime. pic.twitter.com/tiwyeU8OyZ
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 12, 2025
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Sources: Criterio – EFE
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