This Thursday (6th) TSE (Higher Electoral Court) President Minister Alexandre de Moraes said that all 641 electronic voting machines submitted for fairness testing on the day of the first round showed no discrepancies.

The tests, which are filmed on video, consist of a kind of mock voting, in which the TSE servers cast simultaneously equal and already known votes into an electronic and tarpaulin ballot box. A check is then made to ensure that the ballot issued by the equipment exactly matches the paper votes.

TRE-DF technicians hold a conference and seal electronic voting machines in the first round of the 2022 elections – Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil/North Dakota

This year, the TSE carried out integrity checks, which were always carried out directly on election day, on 641 electronic voting machines, which were selected or selected by election observation bodies or parties.

“How could this happen? [em] all polls matched the votes cast with those cast on paper. Keeping in mind that the honesty test is removed completely in order to compare the votes on paper that were filled in earlier and those printed during the fairness test by the Electoral Fairness servers,” Moraes said during the TSE plenary session.

The TSE President emphasized that the polls, which were tested using the biometrics of real voters, also did not fail.

“493 volunteers participated. Similarly, there was no discrepancy, 100% approval of the biometric integrity test,” Moraes said.

Verification of biometric data of real and voluntary voters was carried out at the suggestion of the Armed Forces, one of the controlling bodies of the electoral process.

As part of the pilot, voters were approached by polling station officials who asked if they would provide their biometric identification to unlock polling stations before the bogus votes were deposited by election justice officials.

According to the TSE, there was no resistance on the part of voters to cooperate with the tests, after they were assured that the procedure would in no way affect the secrecy of the real vote cast by them in the electronic ballot box.