>>23802he did, but so far he's just yapping. we knew he was gonna do that anyway, similar to what trump did after losing to biden and what flavio's dad did after losing to lula
there are basically three angles that his people are pushing to claim there was fraud
>the electronic voting machines are inherently unsafethey say this every time they lose but it's a nonstarter since it means the elections they themselves won shouldn't be considered legitimate either. even very bolsonaro-aligned people in the electoral courts are unlikely to take this argument seriously.
>voting was extended past its usual time to give pt extra votesbasically, electoral crimes were reported throughout yesterday that were keeping people from getting to their polling stations. both lula and flavio's respective camps requested an extension of voting hours because of this, but the way this was granted was very irregular and seemed to cast suspicion on the whole process. at the time this was declared, there was genuine fear that bolsonaro might make use of this irregularity to call foul.
the problem is that lula won by such a wide margin (four and a half million votes) that the idea that this could have given him the win is just laughable. it's currently being reported that less than 100k votes were cast during the extension.
>lula won more votes than he theoretically should have been able toin the first round, about 9 million votes were cast for candidates that were neither lula nor bolsonaro. an overwhelming majority of those were expected to go to bolsonaro, since they were for right-wing candidates. but bolsonaro only got about 60% of them, which was fatal to his electoral strategy. similar logic is being applied to people who didn't vote in the first round or voted for no candidate.
this is the funniest argument they're pushing because it's essentially saying "lula won over voters and that's cheating". it's basically them not recognizing how shitty their own candidate is and admitting that they stupidly saw those votes as guaranteed and not something they needed to campaign for.
there's probably nothing else he can do