Bolsonaro wants swathes of votes voided as he contests Brazil election loss
More than three weeks after losing his re-election bid, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has blamed a software bug and demanded that swathes of votes be voided.
He is seeking to have votes from nearly 280,000 machines annulled - but independent experts say the bug doesn't affect the reliability of results. Such a move would leave Mr Bolsonaro with 51% of the remaining valid votes - and a re-election victory, according to Marcelo de Bessa, the lawyer who filed the 33-page request on behalf of the president and his Liberal Party., leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, following Brazil's most polarised election in recent memory.
Liberal Party leader Valdemar Costa and an auditor hired by the party claim that their evaluation found all machines dating from before 2020 - about 59% of the total used in the 30 October runoff vote - lacked individual identification numbers in internal logs.
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