Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by epolanski on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:58PM
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Why unfortunate?
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Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by thatsnogood123 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:01PM
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Bolsonaro-aligned mayors deliberately blocked busses from running that would take people to the polls in Lula-supporting neighborhoods. Emergency legal decisions allowed voting times to extend as a response to this. By the margin of votes, it wouldn't have mattered.
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Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by netsharc on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:57AM
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Ah yeah, the serious serious crime of having stickers on busses...
Just as bad as storming the capitol!
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by matheusmoreira on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:13AM
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Personally, I don't consider it a serious crime at all, or even a crime.
However, it is an electoral crime to do things like stamp public transport vehicles with a party insignia to "remind" candidates who provides for them. As such, it's not at all surprising that the busses were grounded.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by Rapzid on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:40AM
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Wow, yeah. Someone should totally find the people responsible and let them know how criminal they were. Super top priority.
Also it's a good thing people were afforded more time to vote in case their buses weren't running.
It would be sad for a Bolsonaro voter to not be counted because some cheeky rapscallion stickered a bus.
Thank goodness both candidates sought extension and it was granted.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by epolanski on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:35AM
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I think you're missing the point, while not a serious offense it is still an offense and tampering of the electoral process.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by Rapzid on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:42AM
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I don't think I'm missing the point at all mate. The point is to insinuate some conspiracy bull cock and I'm calling bull cock.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by matheusmoreira on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:44AM
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The point is the busses weren't grounded maliciously in order to deliberately stop people from voting. There is an actual reason why it happened: Lula's supporters slapped Lula stickers onto the buses, which is an electoral crime.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
by tomcam on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:58PM
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> Lula was allowed to do every "electoral crime" they barred Bolsonaro from doing in 2022. They even extended voting time, a move that directly benefiting him, and also ruled illegal back in 2022.