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The 2024 municipal elections in Pará took place this Sunday (4), with voting in several municipalities in the state. TRE-PA organized the logistics, including transporting ballot boxes to remote areas, such as indigenous villages, using land, air and river means. Occurrences of electoral crimes were recorded, such as exit polling and irregular dissemination of propaganda.
See in the video above the moment when the gates of IFPA, one of the voting locations in Belém, were closed at 5pm. At 5:15 pm voting was already 100% complete on site.
In other locations, such as Colégio Sesi, in Icoaraci, voters who arrived before 5pm received a password and waited to vote after the gate closed.
In Belém, Faculdade Cosmopolita has more than 9 thousand voters. There were lines in the hallways as voters waited to enter their polling stations.
There, TRE employees guided voters and reinforced that anyone who has biometrics registered does not need to sign a signature at the time of voting.
The president of Podemos Ananindeua, Alex Hage, was arrested by the Federal Police this Sunday (4), in Pará. In Pará, Podemos is running Dr Daniel Santos for state government; and Zequinha Marinho to the Senate. Alex was detained by military police and taken to the Federal Police Superintendence, in Belém - see details here
Many voters know their polling stations well, but in Altamira a community votes this Sunday (4) for the first time: A recently created polling station allowed 200 indigenous people in the Laranjal village, of the Arara people, in the southwest of Pará, to exercise their right to vote. The ballot boxes were taken to the location after a car journey and another hour by boat. Throughout Pará, PA's TRE used land, air and river transport, including more than a thousand vessels, seven planes and six helicopters - see details here.
There were also votes in other indigenous communities, such as in the Mãe Maria Indigenous Land, in Bom Jesus do Tocantins, southeast of Pará, where around 150 families participated in the elections.
"Every day there is a vote, we vote for what we want. I come every time and I've never missed it", says the indigenous Tepre Gavião.
Throughout Pará, 17,069 voters are indigenous.
At Colégio Estadual Visconde de Souza Franco, in Belém, a map fixed to the walls helps voters find their polling stations.
The location also receives some voters who vote at the Paulino de Brito State School, according to Simone Tavares, electoral services assistant who works at the Visconde school.
"When changing schools from Paulino here to Souza Franco, we had a certain difficulty. People are arriving and so we direct them to the right school. At first it was confusing, but now we are managing to flow well with the election", he stated.
Until what time can you vote?
Closing is scheduled for 5pm, Brasília time. However, this does not mean that whoever is in line at 5pm will be left without voting.
If there are voters in line at the time of closing, poll workers must identify these people and provide a password. Voting continues until everyone who was in line at the deadline has voted.
Hana Ghassan (MDB) votes in Belém
The candidate for the government of Pará Hana Ghassan (MDB) voted this Sunday (4), in the morning, at the UFPA Institute of Health Sciences, in Belém.
She arrived at the voting location around 11:15 am, accompanied by supporters, including former governor Helder Barbalho (MDB); the mother, the son and the husband.
Balance app Pardal and Dial Voter
The Pardal application, used by the Electoral Court to receive complaints, has already recorded 63 records from different municipalities. According to TRE-PA, most of the complaints are related to electoral propaganda on public roads, internet advertising and distribution of material.
The Voter Hotline also records searches during voting. The majority of calls received are questions about the polling place and the polling station number.
TRE balance sheet
The Regional Electoral Court of Pará (TRE-PA) has already recorded 21 incidents regarding electronic voting machines and arrests for electoral crimes. Among the cases are arrests due to exit polls and dissemination of propaganda, in addition to complaints through the Pardal app in different municipalities.
Of the 21 incidents, six resulted in the replacement of equipment in Belém and in the municipalities of Castanhal, Juruti and Marabá.
In Marabá, one arrest was recorded by exit poll, in addition to three incidents of the same type without arrest and two related to the dissemination of propaganda, also without arrest.
In Dom Eliseu, 7 arrests were recorded for disseminating propaganda and one for exit polling.
In Maracanã, there was one incident without arrest and two exit-of-poll incidents involving candidates, also without arrest.
In Muaná, three incidents related to the dissemination of propaganda were recorded, with no arrests.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
TRE-PA must initiate formal investigations into recorded exit arrests and dissemination of propaganda.
Likely · Within weeks
New complaints must be registered in the Pardal and Disque Eleitor applications in the coming days, especially related to the verification of results.
Possible · Within days

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