The president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, ordered that the document be sent to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to be included in the fake news investigation, of which he is the rapporteur. The minister cites the possible criminal liability of the creators. The text released by the PL has the party's stamp, but does not have the signature of any of its members.
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“The conclusions of the document entitled 'results of the PL compliance audit at the TSE' are false and untrue, without any basis in reality, bringing together fraudulent information that is offensive to the Democratic Rule of Law and the Judiciary, especially the Electoral Court, in clear attempt to embarrass and disrupt the natural course of the electoral process”, says a note from the TSE.
Moraes also ordered the material to be sent to the General Inspectorate of Electoral Justice. He asks that any misuse of purpose be investigated in the use of Party Fund resources by the party that houses the Bolsonaro clan.
In a note, the TSE states that several fraudulent elements of the document are objects of investigation in the fake news investigation and mentions that the Electoral Court has already adopted “rigorous measures” that have even culminated in the revocation of a parliamentary diploma.
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Shortly before the party released the note, the president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, was at the TSE headquarters on a guided tour of the section where the election results are totaled, a place that became known as the “secret room” after Bolsonaro's statements against the polls and the Electoral Court. After the visit, Costa Neto said that the environment “is no longer secret” and that it is now open. The day before, he even had a closed-door meeting with Moraes to discuss the final stretch of the elections. At the time, he would have told the minister that he disagrees with the speech against the polls.
Costa Neto's statement about the secret room provoked a strong reaction from Bolsonaro. Estadão found that the president had an unfriendly conversation with Costa Neto and framed the party. Bolsonaro's pressure resulted in the note in which the ballot boxes are questionadas. The PL document had been produced on the 19th, but only yesterday did the party's own advisors disclose its contents.
In this final stretch of the elections, Bolsonaro once again raised suspicions about the voting process and directly attacked the president of the TSE. Bolsonaro had abandoned this speech to try to attract voters from outside his bubble who reject radicalization. Since the beginning of the campaign, he has appeared in second place in the polls and, more recently, at risk of losing in the first round to PT member Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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According to a member of the PL, the president has been “out of control” since he learned that Moraes authorized the breach of bank secrecy by his aide, Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid, who is under suspicion of paying personal accounts of Bolsonaro and First Lady Michelle . The Federal Police investigate the origin of the money; Bolsonaro says it's his personal account. Allies describe the president as “possessed” and say that “there will be change”.
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In the document entitled “Results of the PL Compliance Audit at the TSE”, the party insinuates that the results of the elections could be rigged within the Court. “Only a restricted group of TSE employees and collaborators control all the source code for the electronic voting machine programs and electoral systems. Without any external control, this creates, in the hands of some technicians, an absolute power to manipulate election results, without leaving any trace”, says the caption.
The acronym's accusation has no basis in reality, nor any scientific basis, as dozens of parties, including the PL itself, inspected the source codes of the ballot boxes. Some acronyms, such as PTB, even certified the reliability of the systems by digitally signing the programs inserted into the voting devices.
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The TSE maintains that there is no human interference in the counting of votes. The servers working in the totalization room only monitor the functioning of the system.
At the beginning of September, election monitoring entities, such as the Federal Police, the Armed Forces and the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) also digitally signed the systems inserted into the ballot boxes, proving that the devices contain secure and inviolable coding.
At Bolsonaro's request, the party hired Instituto Voto Legal to audit the election. According to the PL, the idea is to monitor all phases of voting, counting and totaling the results of the election. “The chosen methodology always seeks constructive collaboration with the TSE’s senior management, because whoever audits builds value for the audited organization”, says the acronym.
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Bolsonaro's party also said that it released the text because it was unable to hold a new meeting with the TSE to discuss the matter. Despite this, Costa Neto met Alexandre de Moraes twice this week. “Despite the urgency and seriousness of the evidence found, the TSE has not responded, to date, to the numerous requests to schedule a meeting to address the issue. This fact made it necessary to disclose the results of the PL technical team’s assessment of the public documents found.”
After Moraes' reaction, the PL's press office released a note in which it said that Costa Neto “sees the document as a way of contributing to the improvement of the electoral process” and that the head of the PL “reiterates his confidence in the Brazilian electoral system”.
(with Estadão Content)
