Head of Brazil electoral court: No secrets in electoral system
The head of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, said today (Aug 2) there are no secrets in the country’s electoral justice system, which constantly seeks to provide Brazilians with full transparency.
Judge Moraes’s statement was made at the closing of the ceremony of the digital signature and the sealing of the electronic ballot boxes, at the court headquarters. This year, he noted, a much larger number of people and institutions showed interest in attending the event in person.
“This brings more and more legitimacy to the electoral justice system and shows that it operates in a public, transparent way,” he said. “There is nothing secret in the electoral justice system, the only secret and secret thing is the elector's vote,” Judge Moraes declared.
The sealing ceremony is a public event that takes place prior to every election and marks the end of the development and inspection phase of the electoral systems. During the ceremony, which began on Monday (29), court technicians compile the final versions of all programs and present the result for a final check by the dozens of election inspection entities. After the verification, the inspection entity can digitally sign the final version of the software.
The last to complete the digital signing was the chief judge himself. The voting systems were then sealed and stored in non-rewritable media, deposited in an envelope that was also manually signed, and then locked in a safe room at the court’s headquarters.
