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With the aim of helping voters make an informed decision in electing Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in October, TI Brazil created the website Excelencias ("Your Excellencies") with information on the past performance of candidates seeking re-election.

The website - www.excelencias.org.br -received wide attention from the media and the public – in total there were more than 7,5 million visitors to the site from it’s launch August to the elections in October. The website hosted profiles of 568 candidates. This information was systematically reproduced by many newspapers as well as TV and radio networks in Brazil.

The Excelencias website was one of the winners of the most recent edition of the Esso Journalism Award – the most prestigious journalism award in Brazil- under the category "Contributions to the Press". TI Brazil will work with the United Nations Democracy Fund in 2007 to make Excelencias a permanent election monitoring tool and to expand its focus beyond the lower house of parliament to include the senate and a number of state assemblies.