Trailing Lula in Polls, Bolsonaro's Party Peddles 'Fabricated' Attack on Brazilian Voting System

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Trailing Lula in Polls, Bolsonaro's Party Peddles 'Fabricated' Attack on Brazilian Voting System
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'They're afraid they’re going to lose. They're trying to create some kind of excuse for Bolsonaro supporters on why.'

"They're afraid they're going to lose," said one political scientist."They're trying to create some kind of excuse for Bolsonaro supporters on why.

"We're seeing lots of isolated cases that, when you add them up, form a mosaic of shocking violence. These attacks are provoked by people who question the legitimacy of the electronic voting system, who denounce electoral fraud, who say that we are evil incarnate." The report represents only the latest attempt by Bolsonaro and his party to cast doubt on the validity of the election before it takes place. The president has also claimed that polls regarding the election are false. A survey released Wednesday by Genial/QuaestBrazil's election authority quickly dismissed the Liberal Party's report, calling its claims"false and untrue, without any support in reality.

Independent experts on the country's electoral system also called some of the claims of flaws in the system's security"completely fabricated" and said others were complaints that have long existed, but not ones that point to Brazil's elections being at risk for hacking or security breaches. "They released the report right now because they're afraid they're going to lose," Mauricio Santoro, a political scientist at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, toldAttempts by Bolsonaro and his party to sow doubt regarding the coming election results appear to be intensifying as political observers grow increasingly concerned about how the president and his supporters will react if he loses on Sunday.

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