Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira at a naval ceremony at the Itaguaí naval base in Rio de Janeiro on September 1, 2022 (Photo: AFP via Getty Images / Mauro Pimentel)
A video of a man making false claims about this electronic voting machines spreads on social networks with more than 3,200 views. According to users, he would be Secretary of Defense Paulo Sergio Nogueira.
“We had fraud on the first ballot. The president, who decided to bet on the second ballot, thought he could contain the system, that the entire system was conspiring against the right in Brazil,” says the man at the beginning of the Recording.
However, it is false that the records show Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and several bodies have confirmed the reliability of the ballot box and the absence of fraud in the Brazilian electoral process.
Screenshot of a video circulating on the web as if showing Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira exposing alleged electoral fraud (Photo: Facebook / Reproduction)
video search on Google did not identify any interviews in which the minister revealed alleged evidence of electoral interference under the keywords “electoral fraud Paulo Sérgio Nogueira”.
Comparing the looks and voice of Nogueira who appears in the video of one Senate session with those of the viral recording man, it can be shown that they are not the same person.
Furthermore, the claims of alleged fraud do not stand up. So far, no evidence of a violation of the electronic voting system has been presented never suffered a scam.
On the contrary, institutions that acted as observers in the Brazilian elections reinforced the reliability of the system.
One of them was Uniore (Mission of the InterAmerican Union of Electoral Bodies), which did not identify any major problems in the functioning of the polling stations and used the Brazilian elections and the jurisprudence of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) in the fight against disinformation as an example for Latin America. Uniore also classified the measures taken by the electoral judiciary to solve the problems that have arisen as democratic.
Similarly the Rojae CPLP (Network of Jurisdictional Organs and Electoral Administration of the Community of PortugueseSpeaking Countries) published a preliminary report stating that the use of evoting “has been proven safe, reliable and credible”, and concluded that that the Brazilian elections were “free, just and democratic”. Regarding the election campaign, the network highlighted the TSE’s “positive attitude, acting in a timely manner in situations that arose during the election campaign of either of the two presidential candidates.”
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O International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) which also served as an observer in Brazil reported that Brazilian democracy was strengthened through the electoral process. “The TSE conducted the process impartially towards the various political forces […]. Likewise, the electronic voting machine in Brazil has once again proven itself to be reliable.” The International IDEA classified the attacks on the functioning of the ballot box as “unnecessary” controversy.
O TCU (Court of Auditors of the Union), which carried out an audit of the electronic voting system, analyzed the ballot boxes of the second ballot and found no discrepancies in the more than 5 million pieces of information compared.