The Brazilian consul general in Lisbon said this Sunday that two ballot boxes had to be replaced due to technical problems and another was challenged with the annulment of the 59 votes, because a citizen voted twice.
Throughout the day, “there was only one incident at the polls, a voter voted twice, taking advantage of a moment, and they immediately notified us and contacted the Superior Court of Justice.” [Eleitoral] for instructions on how to proceed,” said Wladimir Waller Filho, speaking to journalists at the polling place.
The ballot box was then “sealed, deemed corrupt and voting continued with a canvas ballot box,” he added. The 59 votes that were inside the ballot box had to be annulled.
At the same time, the attache of the Federal Police in Lisbon and his deputy “also followed up on the case, and the voter who participated in this act was taken to a room, a report was made, which has already been transmitted to the Federal Police.” . in Brazil”, added the Brazilian diplomat
Wladimir Waller Filho stressed that “what is done is typified as an electoral crime, in article 309, and in Brazil the penalty is imprisonment for up to three years”, that is, the citizen who committed the act can go to prison.
But since he is abroad, the Brazilian citizen who committed the act was “released, but all the notifications were made,” explained the consul general.
“It is very important to highlight that the event occurred in the presence of inspectors who accompanied the entire process, from the verification of what happened, to the conversation I had with the electoral judge of Brasilia, and the instruction,” he stressed. A “note in the minutes” of that event was also made, he said.
On Sunday morning, also in Lisbon, according to the consul, “two ballot boxes had a technical problem, a problem that could not be solved”.
So both had to be replaced by canvas ballot boxes. “This generated a small delay, admitted the consul general, explaining that it is only possible to replace a ballot box with a canvas one with the authorization of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
Source: Observadora
