Brazil: supporters of Jair Bolsonaro in the street against electronic voting
A supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro carries a sign reading "Printed and verifiable vote" during a rally in Brasilia on August 1, 2021. AP - Eraldo Peres
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Thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets on Sunday to protest against the electronic voting system, which they said could rig the results.
They are asking for a change, demanded by the Brazilian president, who threatens not to hold an election next year.
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With our correspondent in Sao Paulo,
Martin Bernard
He has said it several times: without clean elections, there will be no election next year.
Jair Bolsonaro says the electronic voting system, in force for 25 years, leaves the door open to fraud.
He assures that if the ballot boxes had not been rigged, he would have won the 2018 presidential election in the first round.
And that in the previous election, the left-wing candidate Dilma Rousseff would indeed have lost.
Jair Bolsonaro defended his thesis for two hours this week on a public television channel.
The problem is that he has not presented any evidence of this alleged fraud.
And the electoral court again asserted that the electronic ballot boxes were reliable.
Widely unpopular,
Jair Bolsonaro
appears to have chosen the theme of fraud, observers say, in order to challenge election results if defeated next year, as Donald Trump did in the United States last year. .
With this controversy and these demonstrations, he is also trying to divert attention from the
health crisis
, which has already killed more than 550,000 people in Brazil.
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