TSE checks sealed systems Zero-vote safeguards

Oct 3

TV Brasil reports Saturday's TSE ceremony in Brasília checking the integrity and authenticity of election software against the programs examined, signed and sealed earlier. The package describes a zero-vote report as assurance against preloaded votes. TSE information-technology secretary Júlio Valente explains that each polling-station machine will print its zerésima the following day to show there are no previous votes for presidential or state offices. The account retains the distinction between the Saturday verification and the future machine-level zero reports, without claiming that all next-day polling-machine checks were already performed.

At the TSE in Brasília on October 3, an integrity/authenticity ceremony checks central election systems against the software previously examined, signed and sealed. TV Brasil describes the verification and zero-vote safeguards, with Júlio Valente explaining that individual polling machines will print their zerésimas on October 4 to demonstrate no preloaded votes. Keep the Saturday central verification and next-day machine-level reports distinct; the passage establishes neither completed nationwide physical-machine audits nor observed October 4 results.