Brazil: Armed Forces Should Not Count Votes

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image © 2020 Agencia Estado via AP Images (Sao Paulo) – Brazil’s Armed Forces should not set up a parallel system for counting votes in the upcoming presidential election as President Jair Bolsonaro wants. Bolsonaro has questioned the vote-counting system at the Superior Electoral Tribunal without providing any evidence of wrongdoing, and attacked the tribunal’s former president, Supreme Court justice Luis Roberto Barroso. On April 27, 2022, President Bolsonaro, who highlighted he was the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, suggested that the Armed Forces set up a parallel…

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