Comment by matheusmoreira

> So did Bolsonaro have any basis for claiming the vote against him was rigged? If he did, fair enough.

To start with: voting machines. Surely we need not debate the problems with such technology in Hacker News of all places? I don't really need to elaborate on this matter, right?

Then there's the fact our elected congress tried to add an auditable paper trail to the machines not once but twice and in both instances was overruled by the unelected supreme court. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382