06/17/2024 – 12:08
The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) made an improvement to the electronic ballot box, suggested by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU). The change happened after the voting machines’ source code was inspected by three developers from the CGU’s information technology area over the last week.
The proposed change came from developer Everton Ramos, who had already participated in the inspection in 2022, also by CGU. “It was an extra layer of validation in the vote totaling stage. There were already many validation steps, but we realized that this validation of the hashes (digital summaries) of the data files used in the totalization reinforced that step,” he explained.
The procedure was part of the Transparency Cycle – 2024 Elections, which took around 35 hours of inspection, between last Monday, 10th and Friday, 14th. The objective is to guarantee supervision, by bodies and entities legitimized, of the electronic system that ensures elections in the country.
The TSE technicians opened an electronic ballot box so that the CGU team could observe the hardware in detail and learn about the internal parts of the equipment and its system. “We have four processors and no online connection at the ballot box,” said Rafael Azevedo, coordinator of Electoral Technology at the TSE.
In addition to the controllership, the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), the Senate and the União Brasil party have already sent experts to test and verify the ballot boxes for this year’s municipal elections. There was no challenge from any of the verifiers. Currently, the TSE has 571,020 ballot boxes capable of being used in voting sessions throughout Brazil.
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