Hired by Bolsonaro's party to questionar electronic voting machines had a patent for printed votes

The spell turned against the sorcerer, and now the Superior Electoral Court wants an investigation to hold accountable those within the PL who were responsible for “false and lying information” regarding the electoral system.

TSE accuses PL of fabricating a 'lying' report to 'disrupt' the election

The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ordered that members of the Liberal Party (PL) be investigated for producing a report with “false and lying” information about the security of electronic voting machines. The party of President Jair Bolsonaro, candidate for re-election, released this Wednesday, 28, a document in which, even without evidence, it states that the election result could be rigged by a group of employees of the Electoral Court. The ministers' reaction came three hours and 20 minutes after the text was released.

Hired by PL to prove, in a technical report, that electronic voting machines can be defrauded by TSE employees, Carlos Cesar Moretzsohn Rocha is, to say the least, a controversial figure. According to a report from Metrópoles, the engineer obtained the right to own the “disposable ballot box”, which, in practice, could be used for printed votes.

In addition to this conflict of interests, the Instituto Voto Legal (IVL), led by the engineer, received R$225 from the PL on July 29. The amount came from an account registered as 'Other resources'.

Electronic voting machine patent

Engineer Carlos Rocha, who heads the Instituto Voto Legal, filed a patent application for the creation of “equipment for electronic voting” with the National Institute of Private Property (Inpi), in 1996. The request was denied by Inpi, understanding that the “novelty requirement” was missing. Carlos, however, declares himself the leader in manufacturing the equipment, as showed Estadão.

According to the Attorney General's Office of the National Treasury (PGFN), engineer Carlos Rocha has an active debt of R$873.887,01.

As electronic polls, which became one of the main targets of unfounded attacks of President Jair Bolsonaro since he took office in 2019, were used for the first time in 1996 in Brazilian elections. According to the Superior Electoral Court, its technical project is its property, and was built following a bidding process from the previous year.

• TSE refutes PL's allegations about ballot security: 'false and lies' (Jot)

Printed vote and fakes on ballot boxes

The return of the printed vote was proposed several times with the support of President Bolsonaro, who proposed a constitutional amendment (PEC) to establish the model, in August 2021. The agenda did not move forward. The strategy of melting the credibility of the current electoral system remained standing. One day before September 7th, the Chief Executive repeated that he only believed “100%” in the printed ballot box system. (CNN)

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See what's behind the security of your vote

The Brazilian electronic voting system made the electoral process much more agile and secure. With electronic voting machines, since 1996 the counting of votes, which previously took days, has become faster. This year, for the first time, the election will take place at the same time across the country, from 8 am to 17 pm. All states will follow Brasília time.

Aras posts video saying that electronic voting machines 'put an end to a series of frauds'

This Friday (30), the final stretch for the first round of elections, the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, released a video with a series of statements in defense of electronic voting machines on his YouTube channel. The statement comes after the Electoral Court raised its tone in the face of a new questionment of the PL, Jair Bolsonaro's party, on the security of the ballot boxes.

Curto Curatorship:

• There is no evidence of fraud in 'blackouts' in the 2014 and 2018 elections, contrary to what the post claims (Stay)

• Bolsonaro asks the OAS to give an opinion against electronic voting machines (Power 360)