Bolsonaro attacks electronic voting machines again: "outdated"
In the first round, Bolsonaro ordered the Armed Forces to investigate the voting system. No irregularities or inconsistencies were found.
Reuters - President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) on Monday once again raised unsubstantiated suspicions about the electronic voting machines and said that the analysis of whether there was fraud in the first round of elections is being carried out by the Armed Forces, guaranteeing that he will not interfere in these investigations.
"At the moment, since the Armed Forces have been invited to join an electoral transparency commission, this work is being done by the Armed Forces, I'm not giving my opinion. The Armed Forces have a huge team in the Cyber Defense Command that works on this issue," the president said in an interview with Super Rádio Tupi, from Rio de Janeiro.
The military announced they would analyze the fairness of the first round of voting, but more than two weeks after the first round, held on October 2nd, they have still not publicly presented a report on the matter. Recently, when asked if he had received the Armed Forces' report on the election, Bolsonaro refused to answer.
National and international observers who monitored the election attested to its fairness, and there were no reports of fraud in the voting system, just as there has never been since the adoption of electronic voting machines in 1996.
Still, Bolsonaro, who is second in the polls behind Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), repeated in the interview the false allegations and unfounded suspicions that the ballot box is susceptible to fraud and that the electronic voting system is unauditable.
"Everyone agrees that there is no impenetrable system, no inviolable system," he said. "The TSE [Superior Electoral Court] has a rather outdated, old ballot box, from the late 1990s."
The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has repeatedly clarified that the system is auditable -- for example, through the ballot box reports printed by each machine at the end of the voting process -- and that the electronic ballot box is never connected to the internet.
Bolsonaro has also refused to answer in the past whether he would accept the election result if he is defeated in the second round, scheduled for October 30th.
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