Our space aims to express opinions and scientific studies of specialists in electronic voting, in addition to the vision of personalities from the legal world, journalists and parliamentarians, engaged in recovering Brazilian electoral transparency.
Everyone understands that the security of the vote was lost more than 20 years ago, since citizenship was removed from the conference of the vote and inspection of the counting, to be replaced by strange hands that control the bytes - protected by invisibility.
For this reason, in times of attacks on FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION under the nebulous pretext of hunting Fake News - when facts are distorted or public opinion criminalized -, we must highlight our exclusive commitment to truth, through reliable facts and reliable sources. And an indisputable fact is: “Elections are the only event on the planet, where there can be no doubts and insecurity, only certainties and confidence”.
Unfortunately, with the voter being held hostage by obscure 1st generation electronic ballot boxes, which infringe Principle Constitutional of Advertising and prevent independent audits, is not what we have seen in Brazil for a long time. It is not by chance that mistrust is widespread, as solid and unquestionable research shows: 92% of Brazilians do not trust electronic voting machines and most don't trust the counting of votes.
As our focus is on transparency and electoral security, the mission is to see the country realign its voting process with the democracies of the world, which give control to the legitimate protagonists (voters / parties) and full confidence in the UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE - democratic principle famous, but that also has important stages suppressed to the Brazilians.
Elections are partisan affairs. Electoral security and transparency are not. For this reason, this is one of the rare themes where most ideological opponents converge: the vote needs to be transparent, supervised by the lay voter in technology, widely audited in ways that are independent of the electoral administrator, as well as recounted - if necessary - as in all democracies in the world.
Since 1996, center, right and left parliamentarians, (see the Printed Vote saga), come together to guarantee the Physical / Printed Vote and greater transparency in the polls. All laws were massively approved, but overturned by the judiciary, which takes turns in the electoral service.
The physical or printed vote is the link of political convergence, because it is the single instrument that confirms or not the results of the investigations, which until now are entirely virtual. In addition to removing control concentrated on a public agency, to return it to the only and legitimate protagonists of a democracy: voters and their candidates, as it is all over the world.
Which belies another #fake news and recent fallacy: that only “Bolsonaristas” or the right defend the change. They just add their voice today, to an agenda opened many years ago!
The fact is, it doesn't matter whether you are conservative, liberal, or left-wing. Voting is a supraparty, republican, citizenship issue. It is your right to vote for whomever you want and to be sure that your vote has not been diverted in the bowels of an exclusively virtual process, potentially vulnerable to fraudsters, and "officially" accessible only to some strange public agency employees or suppliers. To think: would they all be incorruptible? Do they not vote or have political preferences? "Anyone with physical access to a Brazilian ballot box can tamper with it". Prof. Mario Gazziro.
Are you atheist? Religious? It doesn't matter either, because you believe or not in a supreme deity, every two years, you are among the millions of Brazilians forced to perform a ritual of submission and faith, before an abstract entity in the elections, called by respectable computer scientists, as The “Sect of the holy byte”. And this organization, led by strangers from imperfect humanity, who also vote and have political preferences, imposes unrestricted submission to all Brazilians, at their command over the electronic ballot boxes - which cannot be taxed by ordinary citizens.
In Brazil you press a button and vote for “faith”, having to rely blindly on the result that the abstract entity proclaims, far from the scrutiny of mortal subjects. If your candidate gets elected, you're happy. But if he doesn't go and suspect fraud, he becomes a "heretic", a bad loser!
Electorally - the country subject to all kinds of hacking by authorities, including the STJ and TSE itself - has become an isolated island from the rest of the world, where voters and their candidates can not only demand recounts, but recounts alter the winner of the elections - sometimes by a difference of a few votes.
Fortunately today, the majority of the population has awakened and challenges submission to the blind virtual vote. We need to regain confidence in the suffrage process, with rationality, never out of mere "faith" or belief.
Here it will be shown by suitable researchers, that of the 193 countries on the planet - except authoritarian regimes and Brazil - all the others, (especially those that adopted electronic voting), exercise the rights to public scrutiny and physical recount of the vote, denied to Brazilians - despite our electoral service being provided by a Public Agent, subordinate to the Advertising Principle expressed in Art. 37 CF / 1988.
All democracies offer tools to parties, candidates and voters to challenge the electoral service itself, through independent judicial bodies, and for this reason, they are impartial justices. No other democratic country, as far as we know, concentrates the weight of the electoral judiciary and administrative in a single body, still reinforced with members of a supreme court.
So if you weigh your back
In the country marked by corruption and successive hacking (including invasions by the electoral administrator himself), what is the guarantee of the fairness of the elections? Only the response of the heavy public agent, supported by the public, who says: "The guarantee soy yo!"
All this “democratic” anomaly with its rhetoric that “there was never fraud”, came to prove that Brazil lives against the world, where people breathe the freedom to choose their representatives through transparent models and feel the lightness of voting with confidence that they are safe. Insurance, not necessarily due to the absence of fraud, but because if they exist, they can be discovered, challenged and reversed. While in Brazil, since the 90s we have suffered a electoral setback of more than a century, since we voted in the 21st century, like our ancestors in the 18th century. The difference is only in the “bytes”.
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