Brazil military finds no evidence of election fraud, dashing hopes of Bolsonaro supporters

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Brazil military finds no evidence of election fraud, dashing hopes of Bolsonaro supporters

Jair Bolsonaro frequently raised doubts about integrity of election in the run-up to his loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Andrew Downie in São Paulo
Thu 10 Nov 2022 00.13 GMT
Last modified on Thu 10 Nov 2022 00.15 GMT

A much-awaited report by Brazil’s Defence Ministry has failed to indicate recent ballots were fraudulent, scuppering the far-right’s hopes of delegitimising the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The military sent the 63-page report to Brazil’s electoral authorities late on Wednesday after days of speculation that it would back claims by extremist president Jair Bolsonaro that the election was tainted.

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, has spent months hinting he would not accept a loss at the polls and frequently called into question the reliability of Brazil’s electronic ballot boxes, even though he provided no evidence they could be tampered with.

His supporters hoped the military would back up these claims but the only note of doubt was a weak suggestion a committee be formed to ensure the source code used in the boxes cannot be tampered with.

Brazil’s senior electoral official said they “received with satisfaction the final report from the Defence Ministry that, in common with all the other monitoring agencies, does not point to any fraud or inconsistency in electronic ballot boxes or in the 2022 electoral process”.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/brazil-military-finds-no-evidence-of-election-dashing-hopes-of-bolsonaro-supporters

[GreenWave]

1. The report says scuppering???

some naval term methinks.

It would have been nice to add, "If any tampering occurred it was your fanatics who tried to block roads to voting booths."

Just like in the USA "You know Georgia purged around 200,000 names from the polls shortly before the 2020 election and still you lost!"

[Judi Lynn]

2. The fiendish crimes the fascists commit always seem to get a pass, don't they?

It would be good to see an end it all that bullying, and terrorizing. Hope it will all blow up in their faces, at long last. Karma seems to take forever!