The Armed Forces report released this Wednesday raised doubts about the reliability of the voting system for the presidential elections on October 30, in elections whose international observers and the Electoral Court consider that they have complied with international standards.
The report, sent today by the Brazilian Ministry of Defense to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), highlights that the inspection focused solely on the electronic voting system and that “it was observed that the occurrence of access to the network, during the compilation of the source code and the consequent generation of programs (binary codes), may pose a significant risk to the security of the process”.
The Armed Forces also indicate that “from the functionality tests, carried out through the Integrity Test and the Pilot Project with Biometrics, it cannot be affirmed that the electronic voting system is free from the influence of any malicious code that could alter its functioning. March”.
In this way, the Armed Forces asked the authorities to respond to the suggestions of the military technicians, such as carrying out an investigation to “better understand what happened in the compilation of the source code and its possible effects” and promote a “detailed analysis of the binary codes that were actually executed in the electronic voting machines”.
The Armed Forces also request the creation of a specific commission, made up of “technicians of recognized prestige in society and technical representatives of the inspection entities.”
Even so, it should be noted that nowhere in the report does the existence of fraud insinuate and that “in view of the audit tools and opportunities defined in the TSE Resolutions and structured in the EFASEV Work Plan, the audit found that the Integrity, without biometrics, occurred as intended.”
“Regarding the totalization inspection, the conformity between the printed bulletins and the data made available by the TSE was verified by sampling,” he stressed.
Several international organizations, including the mission of the CPLP’s Network of Jurisdictional Bodies and Electoral Administration, concluded that the presidential elections in Brazil complied with international standards and that the electronic voting machines were safe and expedited the count.
Jair Bolsonaro and his team sought to discredit the electronic voting system throughout the electoral campaign, without showing any evidence.
At the request of Jair Bolsonaro, the military participated for the first time as observers of the elections and the voting system, which was the target of a campaign to smear the Brazilian leader in the months before the elections, despite the fact that the polls never were the subject of fraud allegations.
Truckers staged hundreds of roadblocks across the country in the three days after the election, but protested after Bolsonaro urged his supporters not to cut off the free movement of citizens.
On November 2, a public holiday, thousands of people demonstrated in front of the military barracks in the main Brazilian capitals to call for a coup against the electoral results.
With 100% of the votes counted, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential elections by a narrow margin, receiving 50.9% of the votes, compared to 49.1% for Jair Bolsonaro, who was seeking a new four-year term.
Lula da Silva will again assume the presidency of Brazil on January 1, 2023 for a third term, after having governed the country between 2003 and 2010.
Source: TSF
