The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Alexandre de Moraes, voted in the morning in São Paulo, where he resides, and then went to Brasília, where in the early afternoon he followed the integrity test with the use of voter biometrics. , in a school in the country’s capital.
This year, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) conducts the integrity test, always carried out on the voting day itself, in 641 electronic voting machines, which are drawn or chosen by the election monitoring entities.
The tests, which are filmed, consist of a kind of dummy voting, in which TSE servers deposit previously known votes in the ballot box and then check to see if the bulletin issued by the equipment corresponds exactly to the votes that were typed.
Traditionally, such tests take place at the headquarters of regional electoral courts, but this year the TSE agreed to a suggestion of the Armed Forces and decided to select six urns to be tested in their own polling stations, using the biometrics of real voters.
“The test serves to prove that the ballot box program accurately portrays what the voter typed on the ballot box,” Moraes said at a school in Brasília, where the integrity test is conducted at the Federal District Electoral Court (TRE-DF) . The voter “simply gives up his biometrics and, from that, it is the servers who carry out the test”, stressed the president of the TSE.
Moraes also stated that the integrity test serves “precisely to prove that what was put in the ballot box is the voter’s will, as it always was”. Other TSE ministers also followed the procedure, such as Sergio Banhos and Benedito Gonçalves, who is also the Electoral Inspector General.
“The biometric integrity test is being well received, voters are not refusing to participate. This will show that the polls are safe”, said the president of TRE-DF, judge Roberval Belinati.
Also present were the Deputy Electoral Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, the acting president of the Federal Audit Court (TCU), Bruno Dantas, and the president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), Beto Simonetti.
