The Armed Forces justified that the questions and suggestions about electronic voting machines, sent to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), put the security of the institutions “at risk”. Therefore, according to the military, the content was kept secret for five years, classified as “reserved”. Now, the Ministry of Defense asks that everything be disclosed, as President Jair Bolsonaro wants.
THE Estadão had access to the document, called the “information classification term”, which contains the justification for secrecy. It was signed by Major General Heber Garcia Portella of the Cyber Defense Command. The degree of reservation on the papers follows the term of the Access to Information Act.
Portella sent the document to the Court on 22 April. He is the Armed Forces representative on the Elections Transparency Commission (CTE), at the invitation of the court. He reports his performance directly to the Minister of Defense, General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira.
Secrecy was imposed on seven proposals by the military to change the way the electoral system works. Despite the fact that the officers themselves requested the secrecy of the information, the Ministry of Defense asked the president of the TSE, Edson Fachin, to promote wide dissemination of the military’s suggestions for the October elections, “given the broad public interest in this issue”. .
The defense minister’s request is in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s offensive, which raises suspicion about the reliability of electronic voting machines and defends a parallel count of votes, controlled by the Armed Forces.
On Friday, the 6th, Fachin authorized the Ministry of Defense to release documents with questions about the electoral process. The president of the TSE, however, demanded clarifications, because initially the Armed Forces representative himself classified the office as “reserved”.
after the Estadão publicizing that, in eight months, the Armed Forces sent 88 questions to the TSE that tried to point out alleged vulnerabilities in the voting process and the counting of the elections, the Ministry of Defense went public to ask the Court to disclose its questions.
Minister Paulo Sérgio argues that citizens and deputy Filipe Barros (União-PR), defeated in the attempt to reintroduce printed voting in the country, asked for access to the full content of the material produced by the military.
In the list of inquiries they sent to the Electoral Court, the military demanded explanations even about why there is access to pen-drives in new models of electronic voting machines.
Part of the questions reinforces President Jair Bolsonaro’s speech of putting the electoral process under suspicion. Despite the questions, so far no official investigation has found fraud in the elections.
A survey carried out by the Federal Police in an investigation opened since 1996 did not find evidence of irregularities. Frauds were detected when the election was carried out on paper ballots.
as showed the Estadãothe Armed Forces recently sent seven more proposals to the TSE to be analyzed and eventually included in the “Election Transparency Action Plan”, which defined improvements to be made to increase the efficiency of the electoral process.
The military’s suggestions, however, were left out of the final version of the plan. The Court informed the newspaper that the letter was sent outside the deadline set for inclusion in the program, but was undergoing analysis and would be answered shortly. They arrived at court on March 23.
In addition to the seven proposals pending analysis, the Armed Forces were responsible for forwarding 81 inquiries to the TSE since the partnership was signed between the institutions in September last year. Part of the letters sent by the military to the Electoral Court reproduced the speech of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) challenging the reliability of electronic voting machines and the Brazilian electoral process.
The impasse surrounding the proposals of the Armed Forces without answers from the TSE was captured by Bolsonaro, who went on to accuse the Electoral Justice authorities of ignoring the recommendations of the military. The president even anticipated what, according to him, would be the content of one of the suggestions sent to the court: the creation of a system of parallel counting of votes deposited in electronic ballot boxes by the barracks.
Suspicions were raised despite the fact that investigative bodies never detected fraud in the electronic voting system. Instead. Last year, the Federal Police searched investigations opened since the use of electronic voting machines, in the 1990s, and found no signs of vulnerability of the equipment. The records of irregularities actually occurred when voting was still on paper ballots. After the adoption of electronic voting machines, the TSE began to test the equipment by hackers and there was no evidence of risks.
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