The TSE has two vote-counting systems.3 The first is a quick count known as the Transmisión de
Resultados Electorales Preliminares (TREP, hereafter referred to as the quick count). This is a system
that Bolivia and several other Latin American countries have implemented following OAS
 
It was implemented for the 2019 election by a private company in conjunction
with the Servicio de Registro Cívico (SERECÍ), the civil registry service, and is designed to deliver a
swift — but incomplete and not definitive — result on the night of the elections to give the media an
indication of the voting tendency and to inform the public.

The second vote-counting system is the official count (or cómputo), which is legally binding under
Bolivian law. The official count is more thorough and precise and takes longer. It is the only valid vote
tallying system, and the TSE uses it to determine and announce the final election results.

There were other statements from the OAS, also without evidence, that appeared to cast doubt upon
the result in addition to those from the mission’s first press release and preliminary report.
13 While the
TSE did suspend the verification of tally sheets in the quick count process on election night at 83.85
percent of tally sheets verified, this is consistent with what the TSE had pledged to do more than a
week before the election: to publicize the result of a quick count that verified at least 80 percent of
the preliminary results.
14 The TSE thus followed through with this commitment, and its decision to
stop the quick count was not in itself irregular or in violation of any prior commitment.15
Furthermore, it is important to emphasize that it is the official count that is legally binding, not the
quick count that the OAS mission took issue with. The official count was never interrupted and was
regularly updated online without any significant interruption. Any potential irregularity would have
had to affect the official count and not only the quick count in order to affect the final result. It is
unclear by what mechanism any widespread or systematic irregularities could occur without being
quickly apparent, given the existing safeguards in the Bolivian electoral process.16 In addition to not
presenting any evidence that irregularities that could have altered the vote count actually occurred, the
OAS mission does not even provide a possible means by which they could have occurred.
The OAS Mission claims that after the interruption of the quick count, it urged the TSE to restart it
and that on October 21, 23 hours after the interruption, the TSE agreed to resume that count.17 At
this point, the results showed Morales approaching the 10 percentage point margin of victory that
would give him an outright win. The Mission then issued its first press release in which it expressed
its “deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary
results revealed after the closing of the polls.

Chang says in her official biography that she is as an "alumna" of Harvard Business School. But according to the university, Chang attended a seven-week course in 2016, and does not hold a degree from the institution.
 
Her biography on the State Department website says she is a "graduate" of a program at the Army War College. But the program she attended was a four-day seminar on national security, according to the college.

The Trump administration and its allies such as Senator Marco Rubio, who appears to have a strong influence on its Latin America policy agenda, have also made public statements — both before and after the allegations contained in the OAS mission’s first press release — implying that the election was stolen.29 The United States supplies about 60 percent of the OAS budget.30  

The company founded by Robert Murray said Tuesday that it and subsidiaries operating coal mines in West Virginia, Utah and Kentucky and its home state of Ohio, as well as the country of Colombia, had sought Chapter 11 protection and agreed a deal with a group of lenders to receive $350m to stay open throughout the process.
 
Mr Murray has been a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump. The coal baron has lobbied the administration to support the industry through actions such as the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, a climate initiative crafted by Barack Obama, and petitioning the government to order grid operators to keep buying power from merchant coal-fired power plants.  
 
However, coal has continued to lose market share in the electric grid to natural gas and renewable fuels such as wind and solar, squeezing miners’ revenues. The US government estimates domestic production will fall to 679m short tons this year, down from 1bn five years ago.  
 
“We’re going to achieve the targets of the Clean Power Plan even without it, and Trump’s deregulatory efforts to support coal will not change the market headwinds coal faces,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and a former Obama administration official.