Distrust of the electronic voting machine in the 2020 São Paulo local elections

Abstract

Brazil has few surveys on the reception of disinformation. Understanding the effects produced by this type of narrative can bring a contribution that allows understand the complexity of this phenomenon. In this sense, the research carried out during the local elections in the city of São Paulo aimed to analyze the sources of information most consulted by voters and to verify how they positioned themselves in relation to disinformation. To carry out the study, two research techniques were adopted: discussion group and in-depth interview. The discussion group methodology is the most appropriate as it allows one to understand the attitudes and behaviors of groups within a given social reality and in-depth interviews allow conversations with people who can offer information relevant to the research objective. A semi-structured interview script was used and two ideological profiles were selected, progressive and conservative, subdivided by age and socioeconomic classification.