Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the Federal Supreme Court, was categorical in affirming the confidence he has in electronic voting machines. The magistrate is in Rio de Janeiro, this Monday (13), to receive tributes for his twenty years in the Court.
“Our problem is not electronic voting, we can have the freedom to vote. If I have a community that is dominated by the militia, by drug trafficking, obviously the freedom to vote does not exist. But this is not a problem with the electronic voting machine. The Brazilian political problem has never been and will not be the electronic ballot box. I am sure of it,” she said.
He spoke to the press after a lunch with businessmen at the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro. Gilmar commented on the confirmation of the Armed Forces in the supervision of the elections.
“If we look at the origin of the construction of the ballot box, important institutions in Brazil participated. The Armed Forces already participate historically. One hundred million reais from the TSE are destined for the armed forces for the issue of logistics, taking urns to distant locations, transporting equipment.
Minister Roberto Barroso of the STF ordered the federal government to adopt all necessary measures and to send reports on the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Araujo Pereira. Gilmar Mendes commented on the case.
“I find it regrettable, extremely serious that this is happening in this region of Brazil. All situations of insecurity, trafficking, illegal fishing, illegal hunting, invasion of indigenous areas. All this needs to be looked at by the Brazilian authorities with due attention. You have to discuss what should not have happened, which is the absence or lack of adequate supervision in this area that was what allowed this to happen,” he said.
Source: CNN Brasil
