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Brazil's runoff vote faces chaos as a court-ordered extension and the arrest of a transport official over bus shortages disrupt the ballot count.
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Brazil runoff live updates: ballot count resumes after two-hour voting extension
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Polls officially close after Brazilian supreme court ordered the extension Sunday as Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva await resultsThe local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an “official mission”, and is not expected to return to Brazil until Monday.Late in the afternoon, Flávio Bolsonaro also filed requests for voting to be extended by two hours in cities in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, but because of heavy rain that he said had prevented voters from turning out. Continue reading...
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