Following irregularities in the Brazilian elections, the president of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, has requested the annulment of electronically-cast votes.
Directing himself to the country’s Superior Electoral Court, Costa Neto referred to those votes cast into electronic ballot boxes during the second round of the recent elections that resulted in a win by Lula da Silva over the incumbent Bolsonaro. He specifically cited the supposed malfunction of 279,300 vote-counting machines.
For their part, authorities within the Brazilian legal system, including the president of the Electoral Court, Alexandre de Moraes, have been explicit in opposing the questioning of the election results.
