Electronic ballot box Reproduction/TRE-RN More than 200 thousand voters from Baixada Santista will have the right to optional vote in the state and federal elections in October this year, according to data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The number of optional voters represents around 14.7% of all voters in the nine cities in the region. ? In Brazil, voting is mandatory for people over 18 and optional for illiterate people, people over 70 and young people aged 16 and 17. The obligation to vote is provided for in article 14, paragraph 1, of the Magna Carta. ?Click here to follow the g1 Santos channel on WhatsApp. According to a survey by the TSE, Baixada Santista has 212,636 optional voters among the 1,446,189 people eligible to vote. Santos is the city with the most voluntary voters, with 64,657 people who can choose whether to go to the polls or not. The municipality is also the one with the largest number of registered voters in the region. See the number of optional voters in Baixada Santista: Santos: 64,657 Praia Grande: 39,864 São Vicente: 35,138 Guarujá: 30,846 Itanhaém: 11,826 Peruíbe: 8,648 Cubatão: 8,638 Mongaguá: 7,174 Bertioga: 5,845
Baixada Santista has more than 200 thousand voters with optional voting for the 2026 elections
Electronic ballot box Reproduction/TRE-RN More than 200 thousand voters from Baixada Santista will have the right to optional vote in the state and federal elections in October this year, according to data from the...
Vote or not? For social scientist, writer and Master of Law, Alexandre Gossn, voting is part of an emotional issue and one of voter persuasion. There are strategies that can be used to convert optional votes into voters. However, according to him, the electorate is experiencing a disenchantment with democracy. “The great challenge for politicians, at a time of great disenchantment (of voters) with democracy, is to convince them that their vote still makes a difference [...] Political mobilization and campaigns will have to involve mobilizing this electorate emotionally and affectively,” said Alexandre Gossn. According to him, there is a difference in the impact of political advertisements according to age. Younger people end up being those most impacted by social media, a tool that became widely used during the electoral process. The expert recalled other moments in history where media coverage was carried out only through printed newspapers, radio and television. Social networks appeared with functions capable of reaching specific audiences. Furthermore, they gained another companion: Artificial Intelligence. "With the adoption of social networks and personalized feeds, for each human being, for each voter, for each citizen, you have the creation of bubbles. So, the politician can send different messages to different segmented audiences. And, now, we have another inflection point, which is artificial intelligence", he explained. For Alexandre, the emotional issue is still what makes the difference. "Both (young and older) will vote out of affection. The difference, perhaps, is the means by which you will convince one or the other, depending on the technology that each one uses", he added. VIDEOS: g1 in 1 minute Santos VIDEOS: g1 in 1 minute Santos
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