COMPUTERIZATION
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Computerized balloting - However, it was only in the municipal elections of 1996 that the Electoral Justice began the process of computerizing the vote. Nearly 33 million voters used the "voting machine" then.

In the general elections of 1998, the computerized balloting reached near 75 million voters. Starting from 2000, all of the voters were able to use the electronic ballot boxes to choose their candidates. More than 108 million voters were able to benefit from the electronic vote to choose mayors and councilmen. Two years later, in the general elections of 2002, almost 115 million citizens had access to the electronic ballot boxes.

In the first round of the municipal elections of 2004, with an electorate of 119 million people, more than 402 thousand electronic ballot boxes were used. In the referendum of October 23rd, 2005, 95,375,824 people among the 122,042,825 able to vote went to the polls. Nearly 406 thousand voting machines were used, guaranteeing, once more, the agility in the counting and security to the vote. In the general elections of 2006, the counting in record time confirmed the electronic voting system adopted in Brazil.