Voters in São Paulo register more than 31 thousand candidates' promises in an online registry office

Voters in São Paulo registered, online, at a notary's office, 31,507 candidates' promises during this year's electoral campaign, according to the Colégio Notarial Brasileiro, which represents the approximately 9,000 notaries and notaries in the country.

The entity launched the e-Not Evidence tool at the beginning of this year. The application integrates the national e-Notary platform and preserves content published on the internet, social networks and other digital environments.

The registration is valid even if the original publication is later deleted or changed.

Promises, commitments, declarations and positions released by elected officials, as candidates, can be archived on social networks, official pages and other online spaces. It is also possible to record attacks between candidates, accusations, offenses and possibly false publications.

The capture records the date, time and URL of the content, which is then validated by a notary.

The record creates publicly authentic evidence of what the candidate said and when. Lawyers in the electoral area can also use the content as evidence in questions brought to the Electoral Court.

The use of notarial documents to preserve digital evidence was already growing in the last elections, according to the Colégio Notarial Brasileiro. But e-Not Provas expands the possibilities for citizens to access the production and preservation of evidence in the digital environment.

"Electoral campaigns are increasingly concentrated in the digital environment, where content can reach millions of people and be deleted shortly afterwards. With e-Not Provas, citizens can record and preserve what was disclosed at that moment — such as promises, statements or accusations", says the president of Colégio Notarial do Brasil – São Paulo Section, Ana Paula Frontini.