The ballot boxes were inspected and endorsed by numerous official bodies, including the Armed Forces, which found no evidence of fraud in their report on the elections, but did not rule out the possibility that it could have occurred either.
The Liberal Party (PL), which supported the frustrated candidacy for re-election of the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, asked the electoral authorities to invalidate the result of the elections won by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The PL filed a lawsuit before the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) in which he asks to “invalidate” the results of the electronic ballot boxes of older models, which are more than half, because he considers them impossible to audit.
An audit commissioned by the PL pointed out that Bolsonaro was the most voted in the newest model ballot boxes, manufactured from 2020, with 51.05% of the votes.
Specifically, the claim is focused on a 61% of the 577,125 ballot boxes used in the October elections.
Regarding this figure, the PL said that they were manufactured between 2009 and 2015 and “cannot be audited”, Unlike the rest, more modern, 2020 model.
In a press conference called by the PL, engineer Carlos Rocha, explained that the intention of this work is “contribute to the strengthening of democracy”.
The above, with a “improvement of the electoral system”.
He argued that the report identified “very strong indications of malfunction” of many of the ballot boxes.
In addition, he pointed out that the intention now is for a “possible inspection, an extraordinary verification, to be carried out in the face of an extraordinary event.”
Jair Bolsonaro’s party asks to invalidate elections
Lawyer Marcelo Bessa, who represents the PL, added that “Because of this technical report, the inconsistencies and the relevant data” that it presents, that formation has asked the electoral authorities to “Check that possible malfunction.”
According to Besa, “if it were verified, the necessary legal measures should be applied”, on which he declined to comment.
According to the official result, Lula prevailed in the second round of the elections on October 30 with 50.9% of the votes, compared to the 49.1% obtained by Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro, to this day, He has not yet publicly acknowledged his defeat or congratulated his rival, but it has allowed the transition to begin with the team designated by Lula for that purpose.
Since the day after the elections, thousands of ultra-rightists are camped out at the gates of dozens of barracks in several cities of the country.
The foregoing, demanding a coup that prevents the investiture of Lula, but until now the military has completely ignored that movement.
A video about one of these protests, carried out in front of a Porto Alegre barracks, generated all kinds of comments on social networks, as protesters are seen making lights towards the sky with their phones, at night, and asking for “socorro”.