4 MAGYAR KÉTFARKÚ KUTYA PÁRT v. HUNGARY JUDGMENT invalid ballots, such ballots could not be forged and would certainly not be taken into account when the votes were counted. 16. In the period preceding the referendum the government engaged in a campaign on migration policy, posting billboards with questions such as: “Did you know? More than 300 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in Europe since the start of the migrant crisis”, “Did you know? The Paris terrorist attacks were carried out by immigrants”, “Did you know? 1.5 million illegal immigrants arrived in Europe in 2015”, “Did you know? Brussels wants the forced resettling of a city’s worth of illegal immigrants in Hungary”, “Did you know? Almost one million immigrants want to come to Europe from Libya alone” and “Did you know? Since the start of the immigration crisis, sexual harassment of women has increased in Europe”. 17. In reaction to this, the MKKP continued its campaign on billboards (“Did you know there’s a war in Syria?”, “Did you know one million Hungarians want to emigrate to Europe?”, “Did you know? The perpetrators in most corruption cases are politicians”, “Did you know? A tree may fall on your head”, “Did you know? The average Hungarian is more likely to see a UFO than a refugee in his lifetime” and “Did you know? During the Olympic Games, the biggest danger to Hungarian participants came from foreign competitors”). It was again financed by micro-donations. 18. On 29 September 2016 the MKKP made available a mobile application called “Cast an invalid ballot” which enabled users to upload and share with other users, anonymously, photographs of their ballots or a photograph of the activity they were engaged in instead of voting. It was not disputed by the parties that the use of the application remained entirely anonymous, both for uploaders and passive users. The launch of the application was reported on in some major online journals (index.hu, hvg.hu). 19. The iOS version of the application was available from the AppStore, while the Android version could be downloaded from Google Play, without registration and free of charge. The application had access to the status and identifier of the mobile telephone and to its photo gallery. Under the basic settings of the application, the user could take a photograph with the rear camera of his or her telephone. The front camera could not be used, so that voters could not take so-called “ballot selfies”, including themselves in the photograph. Besides the photograph, users could also provide a comment, either by choosing a pre-set political message or by adding their own messages. They had the option to indicate in which county they had voted and whether they had participated in the referendum and if so whether they had cast a valid or invalid ballot. These messages appeared together with the photograph. Furthermore, the application generated infographics, broken down by county, about the participation rate and the number of valid and invalid votes. The pictures and messages were accessible to other users of the application. The posting and sharing of photographs were anonymous