Who voted the fastest at my polling station? That question has been on my mind for a few elections. In the first round of 2026 I finally answered it, and not only for my station: for the whole country.
The idea
Every Brazilian electronic voting machine keeps a log of everything that happens on it: when the voter was released, each office confirmed, each wrong key and when the vote was counted. The TSE (Brazil’s electoral court) publishes these logs after the election, station by station.
As a speedrunner, looking at that and seeing a leaderboard was unavoidable. That is why the categories have speedrun names: Any%, 100%, 101% (with the District Councillor, which only exists in Fernando de Noronha), Flawless (no wrong key presses) and even Slowrun.
How it works
Each voter’s time runs from Eleitor foi habilitado (voter enabled) to O voto do eleitor foi computado (vote counted). An importer downloads the logs of every station, processes the events and stores them in ClickHouse. The Next.js site only reads from the database.
- over 125 million voters measured per round, across almost 500 thousand machines
- the 2022 (first and second round) and 2026 elections, with an election picker
- a page for every machine, with timings, recorded failures and a link to the original log
- a map of states and municipalities colored by average time
- real-time processing for upcoming elections, as the TSE publishes the logs
Privacy
The log does not say who the voter is or who they voted for. The site only shows the time, the duration and the station, and the long numbers that show up in a few messages (such as a mistyped voter ID) have their digits removed before they reach the database.