Arquivos da Justiça Eleitoral de Minas Gerais: políticas, governança, avaliação e preservação

Abstract

The central object of the research is analyzed as it implies the policies of the Judiciary for the evaluation and preservation of documents, files, analogues and digitized products/receipts from the Electoral Court of Minas Gerais. The methodological strategy adopted was the case study. The relationships between public archival policies, archival governance and redordkeeping with the institutional setting of the Regional Electoral Court of Minas Gerais were described and revealed, emphasizing the functions of evaluation and preservation. To this end, documentary research, direct observation, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used as data collection procedures. It was found that the archival policies drawn up by the National Council of Justice are not consolidated within the scope of the Electoral Court of Minas Gerais. Nevertheless, it was found that isolated document management actions guaranteed a certain level of effectiveness of the evaluation and preservation processes, even though some optional options by the institution are questionable from the perspective of archival theory.