Brazil military finds no fraud in election, but refuses to rule it out
The Brazilian presidential election of 2018 has been the subject of much speculation over fraud.
A number of factors have led to suspicion:
The opposition received the votes of a large number of illegal voters
People did not vote for a list of people but for individual people.
The list the Supreme Electoral Tribunal approved was fake, but it was not clear who created it.
The Federal Supreme Electoral Tribunal is still investigating the elections and the results are not yet final.
The results of the election of the Brazilian parliament on 15 October are also not final.
In August, Brazil’s Constitutional Tribunal ordered elections to be held on 17 October and said on 2 September that the votes of the illegal voters should be recounted.
On 10 September, the Constitutional Tribunal ordered a recount of votes for Senate candidates, as well as a review of the validity of the votes of the Federal Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
In an editorial, the journal Repórter Brasil wrote that the country is struggling with an electoral “drama” because of “voter fraud and irregularities”, and described the constitutional court’s decisions as a “step in the right direction” even though it found that there was no evidence of fraud to warrant recounting votes.
However, on 17 September, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal refused to recount the votes of the illegal voters, and the electoral authority of Rio de Janeiro said that it had also not found any evidence that any cheating occurred, and that the legal process was open.
President Lula has said that the opposition will try to prevent the recount
The Brazilian presidential election of 2018 has been the subject of much speculation over fraud.
A number of factors have led to suspicion:
The opposition received the votes of a large number of illegal voters The people did not vote for a list of people but for individual people, called “brancos” If there were people on the list that did not vote, the opposition would be able to accuse them of being “brancos”.
The list the Supreme Electoral Tribunal approved was fake, but it