The court responded to the portfolio that the institutions overseeing the electoral process have no external powers of oversight over the TSE and the deadline for requesting documents from previous votes has already expired.
The defense motion, signed by Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, called for “preliminary technical information on the electoral process”.
According to Portal G1, a total of 12 demands from the military were analyzed.
The last was divided into 10 questions, five of which were left unanswered because they were asked after the deadline, according to the TSE.
For four requests for technical data, the court told the ministry that there is no provision in the electoral judiciary’s rules of procedure for the information to be sent in writing.
He explained that the material could be presented to the defense at the courthouse during the inspection of the source code, that is, during the analysis of the files of the computer programs that make up the voting system.
In the response to the Department, Edson Fachin, President of the TSE, reiterated that the “written notice does not lend itself to detailing elements for the specification and development of systems that only need to be measured on-site for the testing bodies in the environment of the Superior Court Electoral”.
In the document, Fachin also explained that the “primacy of transparency” stipulates that there are no “reserved institutional spaces or meetings that fall outside of the action plan approved by the Electoral Transparency Commission in the first half of 2022.”
According to the court, on October 2, 156 million 454 thousand 11 Brazilians will be able to exercise their right to vote.
So far, ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has dominated all pre-referendum opinion polls, followed by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who wants to be re-elected.
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