Brazil Tests Electronic Ballot System in Paulino Neves Simulation

Overview

• The simulation was held Sunday, August 23, 2026, in Paulino Neves and involved about 1,398 volunteers, equal to roughly 9.22% of the municipality's 15,098 registered voters.
• Organizers reported the exercise ran without technical or logistical incidents and completed result totalization in 14 minutes.
• The test used the same electronic voting machines as official polls and measured biometric identification times, vote-entry speed, result transmission and accessibility procedures.
• Ninety-six poll workers staffed 24 sections across 11 polling sites while TSE president Kassio Nunes Marques attended and highlighted vote sovereignty and machine transparency.
• TRE-MA said the exercise flagged that voting may be slower this year and the TSE will publish average voting times within ten days while using the collected data to tweak training and procedures before October.