The information that the Armed Forces plan to carry out a parallel check of the vote totals in this year’s presidential elections provoked an immediate response from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to affirm that any interested party can carry out the verification of the ballot papers and deny that it has granted military privileged access to data.
The following day, the Electoral Justice announced another proposal from the Armed Forces and decided to approve a pilot project that foresees the use of biometrics in up to 10% of electronic voting machines that will undergo an integrity test on election day.
In this episode of E Tem Mais, Carol Nogueira presents an assessment of the TSE’s reactions to the military’s proposals to increase the security of the voting system in Brazil.
To describe the relationship between the Electoral Justice and the Armed Forces and the mechanisms of control of the Brazilian electoral process, the political analyst of CNN Gustavo Uribe and professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) André Santos, a member of the Elections Transparency Commission created by the TSE.
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