
Procedures aim to ensure the transparency and security of the systems used in the electoral process
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The tests are part of the periodic inspection schedule of Brazilian electoral systems to guarantee the integrity of the election.
This Saturday's procedures are part of the electoral systems inspection schedule — a series of tests and checks that ensure the transparency of the electoral process and indicate that the systems used in the election are safe.
According to the TSE, three systems that take care of receiving, transmitting and totaling votes were verified:
Totalization Management System (Sistot): set of programs whose main objective is to monitor receipts and manage the totalizations of election results based on files processed by the Ballot File Receiver;
Ballot File Receiver (RecArquivos): system responsible for receiving the packages generated by the File Transporter and making them available to be consumed by the Totalization Management System;
Web Transport System: is the Electoral Justice tool used to transmit via the internet (in a web environment, within the TSE's secure network) ballots and files generated by electronic voting machines directly to the Centralized Data Bank of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Ballot Box File Information (InfoArquivos): system responsible for providing the File Carrier with the status of files sent and received in the Electoral Court database;
The ceremony was attended by representatives of political parties, such as the MDB, and entities that function as organizations monitoring the process, such as the Electoral Attorney General's Office, the Chamber of Deputies, the General Comptroller of the Union (CGU), among others.

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