Rio selects 43 machines Audit checks explained

Oct 3

Portanova and Anna Karina de Carvalho describe Rio de Janeiro's election-machine audit preparations. The reporter says 43 machines were selected, 33 for integrity testing and ten for authenticity testing. She explains that integrity testing compares prepared paper-ballot choices entered into the machine during voting with the final machine count, while authenticity testing checks that the installed official programs were not changed. Rio has about 12.9 million voters, the third-largest state electorate, with more than ten million registered biometrically. Both the introduction and the reporter's conclusion describe the audit as already carried out that Saturday. That wording is retained as their claim; the account's clear selected-machine and testing descriptions do not independently establish that Sunday's comparison tests had already been completed.

Rio de Janeiro selects 43 voting machines for the October 4 first-round audit process: 33 for integrity checks and ten for authenticity checks, according to TV Brasil. The report explains comparing paper choices with machine totals and checking installed official software. The court's October 3 account identifies selection that Saturday for Sunday testing. TV Brasil's host and correspondent nevertheless describe an audit as already completed; retain that wording as their claim without treating Sunday's comparison tests as proven complete.