Brazilian voters go to the polls on Sunday in a tense election to choose between re-electing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro or returning leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to office.
The president has spent more than a year questioning the reliability of Brazil's electronic voting system. Although there has been no evidence of fraud since it was implemented in 1996, many of Bolsonaro's supporters now doubt the credibility of the country's elections.involving high-profile Bolsonaro allies, has added to fears that contested election result could trigger unrest.
Bolsonaro's allies are organizing a "Victory Party" on Brasilia's central esplanade on Sunday during the vote count. Lula, who was born into poverty and led union strikes against Brazil's military government before founding the Workers Party in the 1980s, has called on voters to defend Brazil's democracy from Bolsonaro's "neofascism."
The armed forces checked some voting machines during the first-round vote to be sure paper receipts lined up with the results transmitted digitally, but they did not report their findings.
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