During the election campaign last year, former President Jair Bolsonaro allegedly requested a Brazilian hacker to interfere with an electronic voting system, the hacker told a congressional committee.
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| Computer programmer and hacker Walter Delgatti Neto |
Computer programmer Walter Delgatti informed the committee on Thursday that he had been given the go-ahead to do whatever I wanted with the voting system.
He claims that meeting with Bolsonaro, who is alleged to have also pledged to pardon Delgatti if he got into difficulty, took place in August of last year. Congresswoman Carla Zambelli reportedly hired him and paid him 40,000 reals to set up the encounter.
In order to demonstrate to the populace that it is feasible to push a button to vote for one candidate and end up with another, I wanted to get a machine on which I could install my programme, revealed Delgatti.
Delgatti said that despite Bolsonaro's request, he was never able to change a voting machine's results to seem accurate.
Bolsonaro told local radio Jovem Pan following Delgatti's testimony that the charges are false but that he had met Delgatti.