Bolsonaro wants to change the voting system in Brazil

At a conference by videoconference at the Conservative Summit of the Americas, which was held Saturday (8) in Foz do Iguaçu (PR), President-elect Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) again spoke about electronic voting fraud and promised to present it at the beginning of the government a proposal to change the electoral system in Brazil. Bolsonaro, elected with 55.13% of valid votes in October, spent the campaign to cast doubt on the reliability of the ballot boxes. He even said in a TV interview that he would not accept another election result other than his victory. He did not give details of the proposal to be submitted after taking office on 1 January.

According to Bolsonaro, the change is necessary to prevent the PT, the party of Fernando Haddad, who was in second place in the elections, from returning to power. "Either we are changing Brazil now, really, or the PT is coming back, and the PT is coming back with much more force than it had until the end of the Dilma Rousseff government," he said. the elected president.

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According to Bolsonaro, a bill to change the voting system will be introduced in the first half of next year. "We intend to present in the first half a good proposal to change the voting system in Brazil, because many of us understand that we only win because we had a lot, but a lot more of votes that [PT]"he said.

"A lot of people here in Brazil are thinking about the mistrust of the possibility of fraud, just because we won now that we have to rely on this voting process," added the captain reserve.

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The meeting was organized by the future colleagues of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Bolsonaro and Luiz Philippe of Orleans and Bragança, nicknamed "the prince", both of the PSL, as well as the party's lawyer, Gustavo Kfouri

The public, about one-third The one-third of the 1,500 subscribers did not even fill the auditorium of a local hotel.

The summit ended with a letter of "popular desire for representatives of the people", which included dealing with "fighting" the culture of victimization "and" strengthening the values ​​of Western culture. "

The return of the printed vote?

Although it was not clear, one of the chances is that the president-elect insists that the printed vote be returned to the elections. an amendment tabled by the then MP, Jair Bolsonaro, the printed vote was included and approved in the mini-political reform of 2015, and its planned implementation for the 2018 elections.

In accordance with the Standard approved by Congress, each vote cast in the electronic ballot box is printed, the voter could check if the information on the paper matches that of the screen.The printed vote would automatically be deposited in a conventional urn without manual contact of electors

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The Bolsonaro amendment was opposed to the veto of the then President, Dilma Rousseff (PT), who invoked the high cost of implementation, but the veto was overruled by Congress

. (19659002) Four months later, the Federal Supreme Court (STF), the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Supreme Court of Brazil,) suspended the implementation of the printed vote in the October elections, under protest from Jair Bolsonaro, then chairman of the board of directors.