COMPUTERIZATION
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Voting machine - In the 60's, Ricardo Puntel invented and offered a voting machine model to the TSE, which was not used. It was foreseen that the neutrality of machines, which do not have emotion or ambition, not only would make counting almost instantaneous, but also would decrease the volume of fraud.

In 1978, the Regional Electoral Court (TRE) of Minas Gerais presented a prototype for the mechanization of the electoral process to the TSE.

After isolated initiatives by some Regional Courts that developed new ideas regarding the automation of the elections, the TRE of Rio Grande do Sul developed a pilot project for the computerization of the enrollment of voters in the state.

In 1981, the then president of the Superior Electoral Court, Minister Moreira Alves, sent a draft law to the President of the Republic, João Baptista Figueiredo, on the use of electronic processing in electoral services, which was officially established in 1982, through Law 6996.

Three years later, in 1985, Law 7444 focused on the use of electronic processing in the electoral enrollment and in the revision of the electorate, which led to a new registration of 69,3 million voters, who received new registration certificates, each with a unique national number.