
Procedure guarantees the integrity and authenticity of voting systems for Brazilian elections
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The sealing ceremony is a mandatory technical step that seals the source codes of electoral systems before voting.
The procedure represents the stage of verifying the integrity and authenticity of the systems responsible for transmitting, receiving and totalizing election results.
During the ceremony, he argued that it is the TSE's sacred duty to ensure that each vote cast in the electronic ballot box "is recorded and counted with accuracy and fidelity."
"The systems thus generated and sealed are official, tested and inspected and, therefore, capable of safely conducting the technical stages of the Brazilian elections. Today's ceremony confirms that these are precisely the systems installed in the computers of the Superior Electoral Court", highlighted the minister.
According to him, the procedure is a public check of the systems, which guarantees that "no program lines were altered, omitted or added, guaranteeing the integrity of the technological ecosystem responsible for receiving, transmitting and totaling votes".

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