The Brazilian armed forces will conduct the vote counting in the elections on October 2, parallel to the traditional counting conducted by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). The measure is unprecedented and is seen as a response to pressure from President Jair Bolsonaro, who has raised doubts about the infallibility of the electronic voting system.
The army’s initiative follows negotiations in August between armed forces judges and the TSE court, he says Folha DS Paulo. Practically speaking, on Election Day – Brazilians elect the president, federal congressmen, state governors, and state representatives at the same time – military technicians will scan QR codes for 385 ballot boxes scattered across the country and send the information to the presidents.armed forces that will lead the operation.
In the end, says the same newspaper, the census of electoral colleges and military bodies will be compared. This is an unprecedented initiative since the introduction of the electronic voting system in Brazil in 1996.
TSE He dismissed, in a statement, the idea that there would be “different, real-time access to data,” stating that the information in question contained in the polls is “widespread and unrestricted access by all supervisory entities and the general public.”
Bolsonaro, who is seeking re-election for a second term, was a critical system Electronic voting, although elected consecutively as a federal deputy and for a four-year term as president with this form in effect. Among its proponents, doubts remain about the possibility of falsification of election results, although no evidence has ever been provided that electronic voting machines are more susceptible to fraud than the printed form of voting.
Bolsonaro himself even claimed to have won the 2018 election in the first round – he eventually won Labor’s candidate, Fernando Haddad, in the second round – but he has provided no evidence to substantiate this claim.
This time, polls showed that Enormous difficulties The president faces the nepotism of former president Lula da Silva. Since the end of last year, Lula has maintained a solid lead, although the chances of winning the first round look increasingly slim. The Labor candidate on Monday took another important step towards his return to the Planalto Palace by declaring support from former minister and former presidential candidate Marina Silva.
Facing the approach of defeat, there are those who fear that the doubts that Bolsonaro and his supporters have planted about the power of electronic voting may help support a hypothesis. reject results, creating a situation that would throw Brazil into an unpredictable institutional crisis. Bolsonaro has said it over and over again Result will not be accepted It is not considered the result of a “transparent” process.
The compromise reached by the electoral judiciary was to involve the armed forces in monitoring the vote count, but the premise of two simultaneous counts could raise trust issues if the final results were different. “Who is going to supervise the inspector? That is the question. Who is the chief inspector? It’s Bolsonaro, which is why I see him with great concern,” said jurist Walter Mairowitz, citing UOL.
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