A captação ilícita de sufrágios na Paraíba: análise dos processos sobre compra de votos Tribunal Regional Eleitoral da Paraíba relativos às eleições de 2004 a 2016

Abstract

The efforts of this research aim to analyze the cases regarding vote-buying, the data processed in this research comes from the database which belongs to the Tribunal Regional Eleitoral da Paraíba (TRE/PB), since 2018 until 2019, related to the judged processes which were typified as capitation of illicit suffrage. The work approaches a brief history and contextualizes the illegal capitation practice of suffrage in Brazil, presenting several different ways which the vote-buying have behaved before the legislation until the approval of the law by the popular initiative against electoral corruption. In the second part, we show the results obtained in the database of the TRE/PB which is concerned about the vote-buying in the period between 2004 and 2016.