On October 3 of this year, a video appeared on Facebook in which an alarming complaint was made: a woman denounces that there was electoral fraud in Brazil after having found an alleged voter registry in Curitiba. Therefore, the votes would not have been counted (because they were in the street, abandoned) and, therefore, Lula da Silva’s victory would have been illegal. It is, however, a false publication.

Viral publication denounces that there was fraud in the Brazilian elections. It’s false.

In the video, about three minutes long, the woman who stars in the video alleges that the October 30 elections, which gave Lula da Silva victory in the second round of the Brazilian elections, reveal a long paper where Votes will be recorded. of several voters from the region where that voter will also have voted, a fact that leads her to conclude that the elections are affected by illegality and that, therefore, Lula’s victory over Bolsonaro will be null.

But aside from that video with the alleged fraud report, no further information was shared. Not even a website or source showing that, in fact, that paper was from a voter registry in a Brazilian region. The first idea that must be demystified is that the votes are not counted through the physical reading of votes, but through electronic equipment.

Then, another relevant fact: that the voting record is not printed just once, contrary to what the author of the video claims. It is also possible, through the Boletim na Mão application, to download ballots, for example. In other words, the secret or dark dimension present in the video clashes with the transparent possibility that any citizen can consult the results. All this information is available in various fact-checks on the subject, but also in official bodies in charge of electoral monitoring in Brazil, such as the Superior Electoral Tribunal.

Subsequently, as reported by the Estadão newspaper, which verified this publication as it was considered false, the results disclosed by the woman may be consulted on the website of the Superior Electoral Tribunal of Brazil. If we look at the data in question, it is clear that, in the voting section present in the document, Jair Bolsonaro would end up winning with 152 votes. In fact, the still Brazilian president won even in Curitiba, the area where the woman was.

It is also important to note that, from the various articles consulted, it was ensured that the Regional Court of Paraná, the region where the author of the original video resided, denied the allegations of fraud that were made and later shared on social networks.

conclusion

It is not true that there was fraud in the Brazilian elections after a couple found a voter registration on the street in Curitiba. Vote counting is done electronically and not physically. All the votes can be consulted in various ways, including applications or even websites of the official bodies that regulate elections in Brazil.

Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:

WRONG

In the Facebook rating system this content is:

FAKE: Main content claims are factually inaccurate. This option generally corresponds to “fake” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking sites.

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