Overview

• TRE-RJ announced it will relocate selected polling places after meeting with state security intelligence at its headquarters in downtown Rio.
• The court has begun mapping electoral sections considered at risk of interference by organized-crime factions.
• Guidance under study would keep voters within roughly 1.5 kilometers of their homes when sites are moved to reduce intimidation.
• A data-sharing mechanism to expand access to candidate information and block registrations linked to organized crime is being designed, with procedures to be defined in coming meetings.
• Officials cite 2024 incidents in which ballot boxes were escorted by armored police vehicles as context for the new measures and say the goal is a calm and secure 2026 election.