Bolsonaro now no longer conceding election - claiming fraudulent results due to voting software error

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Bolsonaro contests Brazil election loss, wants votes voidedBrazil Bolsonaro Voting MachinesBRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s nation’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn't affect the reliability of results.Neither explained how that might have affected election results, but said they were asking the electoral authority to invalidate all votes cast on those machines.The bug hadn't been known previously, yet experts said it also doesn't affect results.Diego Aranha, an associate professor of systems security at Aarhus University in Denmark, who has participated in official security tests of Brazil's electoral system, agreed.But Brazil’s system has been closely scrutinized by domestic and international experts who have never found evidence of it being exploited to commit fraud."

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