Bolsonaro challenges vote

More than three weeks after losing a re-election bid, President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn’t affect the reliability of results. Such an action would leave Bolsonaro with 51% of the remaining valid votes – and a re-election victory, Marcelo de Bessa, the lawyer who filed the 33-page request on behalf of the president and his Liberal Party, told reporters. The electoral authority has already declared victory for leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.