Bolsonaro contests Brazil election loss, wants votes voided

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Bolsonaro contests Brazil election loss, wants votes voided BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s nation’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn’t affect the reliability of results.Neither explained how that might have affected election results, but said they were asking the electoral authority to invalidate all votes cast on those machines.At climate summit, Brazil's Lula promises new day for Amazon In Brazil, Bolsonaro voters protest against his defeat Brazil will be climate leader, says ex-minister Marina Silva Report by Brazil's military on election count cites no fraud The complaint characterized the bug as “irreparable non-compliance due to malfunction” that called into question the authenticity of the results.Diego Aranha, an associate professor of systems security at Aarhus University in Denmark, who has participated in official security tests of Brazil’s electoral system, agreed.But Brazil’s system has been closely scrutinized by domestic and international experts who have never found evidence of it being exploited to commit fraud."

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