Fraud yes or no? Defense Ministry to send report on Brazil’s elections to electoral authority on Nov. 9

The Ministry of Defense announced this Monday (Nov. 7) that it would send on Wednesday (Nov. 9) to the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) the inspection report produced by military technicians about the electoral process in the 1st and 2nd rounds.

Observers found out that, in the document, the inspectors will point out inconsistencies in the electoral process and suggestions for future elections.

The report is awaited with great interest by the large pro-Bolsonaro protest movement.

Whether the document will make definitive or compelling statements about the validity of this year’s election is the question everyone is asking now.

Amid allegations of a stolen election, Brazilians have been protesting in their millions in over 300 locations nationwide during the weekend.

Brazilians are in the streets protesting against what they call ‘the biggest electoral fraud in Brazil’.

“One cannot at least question the result of the elections. Whoever questions it can be arrested; this is not democratic; it is a dictatorship. So-called democratic institutions persecute the people,” said one protestor asked by The Rio Times.

In 2021, several times, and more rarely in 2022, Bolsonaro advocated the adoption of printed ballots, but the House of Representatives rejected the proposal.

In November 2021, the president declared that the armed forces’ involvement in the electoral process would make “fraud” in the 2022 elections nearly impossible and “end suspicion.

ARMED FORCES

Rumors are circulating that the military has sent troops to the border with Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru to prevent infiltrations from these countries, whose governments are friendly to Lula da Silva.

Yesterday, three warships were said to have arrived in the port of Itajai, Santa Catarina state, which testified that the Brazilian military had taken extraordinary measures.