(1 Oct 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro - 1 October 2022
1. Various of boxes with electronic voting urns inside being distributed
2. Various of electronic voting urns charging their back up batteries in case of power outage
3. Various of boxes with electronic voting urns being loaded onto bus
4. Pan of bus leaving for voting station
5. Various of boxes being unloaded and brought into school that will be used as a voting center
6. Electoral officials holding draw for random testing of electronic voting urns
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Elton Leme, President of the Regional Electoral Court of Rio de Janeiro:
"Today is a very important day, it's a fundamental step of the electoral process. Today is the day we select the urns that will be submitted to integrity and authenticity tests."
8. Various of draw
9. Various of international election observers from OAS and other organizations
10. Mid of Leme
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Elton Leme, President of the Regional Electoral Court of Rio de Janeiro:
"We want voters to have tranquility and feel safe when leaving their homes to exercise their right to vote."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brasilia - 01 October 2022
12. Various of Brazilian Congress and Senate building
13. Planalto Palace (official workplace of the president)
14. Supreme Electoral Court building
15. TSE (Supreme Electoral Court) lettering
16. Sign at Supreme Electoral Court building reading (Portuguese) "90 years of Electoral Justice"
17. Secretary of Integrated Operations Alfredo de Souza next to Minister of Justice and Public Security Anderson Gustavo Torres and screen reading (Portuguese) "Operation Elections 2022"
18. Anderson Gustavo Torres
19. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Anderson Gustavo Torres, Minister of Justice and Public Security:
"All the planning, election security, process security of the voting machines, voting machines transportation, it's ready and planned."
20. Cardboard box reading (Portuguese) "Electronic voting machine - Electoral Justice" with Brasilian coat of arms
21. Electoral workers preparing a voting station
22. Various of electoral worker preparing a voting room
STORYLINE:
Electronic voting urns were distributed and escorted to voting center across Brazil Saturday ahead Sunday's much-anticipated general elections.
More than 150 million Brazilians are eligible to vote for president, senator, governor as well as state and federal lawmakers. Voting is mandatory from ages 18 to 70.
The electronic machines were first used in 1996 and the first nationwide, electronic-only vote took place in 2000.
Today, election results are presented mere hours after polls close and no significant fraud has ever been detected.
Electoral officials in Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere submitted randomly selected voting machines to "authenticity" and "integrity" tests Saturday, as they always do, to make sure they were working properly and accurately.
International observers and journalists were invited to watch.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking reelection, has fed concern about the nation's electronic voting system without any evidence. He has long insisted that the machines are prone to fraud, though he acknowledges he has no proof.
Brazil's top electoral authority says the system has been tested rigorously and some critics of Bolsonaro say he may be laying the groundwork for an attempt to cling to power if the vote doesn't go his way.
AP video shot by: Mario Lobao/Lucas Dumphreys
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