If you don’t see Dems celebrating Lula’s victory and understand they are supportive of an actual honest-to-God tyrant, you are delusional. They would do the exact same stuff if they had the power to. Thank God for our system of government.
Honestly, until the legal challenges have played out, he shouldn’t and maybe not even afterward.
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80% were closed (cannot be reopened). That’s insanity.
TRE-SP: cerca de 80% das urnas estavam fechadas quando ampliaram horário
cnnbrasil.com.br/eleicoes/tr…
That’s an insane stat. Almost impossible someone might say…
Replying to @jackhiggins_ldn @afrym76
Assuming independent 50/50 swings across Brazil's 27 units, the chance all move the same way is 1 in 134 million. Real elections show strong national correlation from campaigns and events, so uniform leftward shifts from first to runoff (via redistributed votes) occur often and are not anomalous.
Please understand, if you are a Brazilian American and you oppose Lula, this is his ally here. They are completely ideologically aligned. Vote accordingly.
This would be wild if this occurred.
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.
Lula has a 3m vote lead with 85% of the vote in. Probably a statistical impossibility that he loses now. Sad day for Brazil.






















