It doesn’t. Just ask @LulaOficial and @Cristianozaninm to explain how they won. Allow an independent international examination of the data or re-do the runoff. Those are the only credible options.
FIRST ROUND
The candidates who finished in:
3rd) Augusto Cury: 3,448,569 votes
4th) Renan Santos: 2,675,887 votes
5th) Ronaldo Caiado: 2,605,148 votes
6th) Romeu Zema: 326,488 votes
TOTAL: 9,056,092 votes
SECOND ROUND
Lula received 10,376,694 more votes than he did in the first round.
It’s as if he had secured every single vote cast for these candidates, none of whom are left-wing, plus another 1,320,602 votes, becoming the most popular president in Brazil’s entire history.
THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. UNACCEPTABLE!
Especially since the vote counting was halted for two hours.
A transgender Congresswoman in Brazil has just demanded that Flavio Bolsonaro give his passport over to authorities so he cannot flee the country.
Of course, this is just the first step towards arresting him.
There is no semblance of democracy in Brazil.
Hundreds of Brazilians are commenting, begging for help.
They have been cheated.
They have been betrayed.
The October 2026 Brazilian election was stolen.
VOTE FRAUD.
BREAKING: Brazil's election could be annulled, according to the New York Times.
Electoral lawyers say Brazil's current situation is "extremely serious" and a "critical situation."
The NYT reports that confusion over a last-minute voting extension by Justice Cristiano Zanin, who was appointed by Lula, could lead to the election being annulled.
"This is an extremely serious, critical situation," said electoral lawyer Priscilla Sodré Pereira to the New York Times.
When Zanin made the last-minute decision to extend voting hours, some polling stations had already closed and shut down their voting machines. They could not reopen.
"Fernando Neisser, an electoral law professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, a Brazilian research institute, said the election could be annulled if the margin is very narrow and it is shown that polling stations stayed open longer in areas that strongly favor one candidate," the NYT reported.
Wow.
Flavio Bolsonaro is the rightful President of Brazil.
Lula is stealing an election in the most obvious and corrupt way possible.
There needs to be an international condemnation of this election and the world should refuse to recognize Lula.