‘Mechanism for disrupting’, evaluates expert on fake website that claims to have data on election

Ívina Garcia – from Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The sites SeuVoto.Info and Vejaseuvoto.info are being used as another strategy to try to delegitimize the victory of President-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), over Jair Bolsonaro (PL), in the 2022 elections. Pretending to use data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the website shows votes supposedly diverted to the Petista.

An introductory text inserted on the site states that the information researched was extracted, directly, from the electronic ballot boxes. “The files were provided by the TSE itself”, it states. Soon after, through a note, the court denied the use of official data. “Not even the Electoral Justice can know, nominally, in whom the electors voted.”

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With a simple construction and without a logo, the site has a scannable space where the user inserts a CPF number and receives data with Name, City where he voted and the number in which he voted. The simple programming system determines, randomly, if user X voted for 13, for Lula, or 22, for Bolsonaro.

According to the lawyer and expert in Digital Law Aldo Evangelista, the system is programmed to give more results to 13 than to 22. “Using algorithms in a random way, it is subtended that his programming is to always give a result that there was a greater vote for the number 13, for president-elect Lula. There is also the information of a random city, which does not always match”, explains the expert.

Security

According to the consultation made by the CENARIUM MAGAZINE report, the site was registered on 8 December 2022, in Arizona, United States. On the other hand, it was not possible to trace the name of the person who registered the domain.

Sites like this are a danger to digital health, as well as for data security. According to Evangelista, “it is reckless for a person to enter their CPF and personal data, because these sites can collect this CPF number and use it in a frivolous and even criminal way”, he warns.

Social networks

Voters of the defeated president, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), used social networks to question the Electoral Justice about the election results using the fake website. In one of the publications, a woman claims to have consulted the CPF of a deceased person who appears with a registered vote for Lula.

“Explain this @TSEjusbr, how a person deceased more than 12 years has computed his vote in the election of 2022? Tell me? He was resurrected on voting day, used the electronic ballot box and ascended to heaven?”, he writes.

Test confirms fraud

The report entered the CPF of public people and politicians to test the algorithm. The former minister of Bolsonaro, Marcos Pontes, appears voting for 22, Carlos Bolsonaro, Jair’s son 02, would have voted for 13. Already Senator Omar Aziz, critic of Bolsonaro, appears with vote 22, Caetano Veloso with vote 13 and the mayor of Manaus, David Almeida, with vote 22.