Bolsonaro Wages Trumpian Campaign to Sow Doubts About Voting
Source: Bloomberg News
President demands a paper trail despite no evidence of fraud, mimicking leaders worldwide who have attacked their democratic systems
By Simone Preissler Iglesias and Andrew Rosati
July 11, 2021, 11:32 AM CDT
Brazil’s election is 15 months away, but President Jair Bolsonaro warns almost daily of cheating, chicanery and hacking.
With his popularity plummeting amid a criminal investigation over vaccine purchases, Bolsonaro has mimicked former President Donald Trump by laying groundwork to dispute a defeat. The far-right president and his congressional allies are pushing a bill in congress, which can go to a committee vote as early as this week, requiring the nation’s 470,000 voting machines to generate a paper record of each ballot. Otherwise, Bolsonaro says, hidden actors could manipulate the results.
Electoral authorities warn that changing a 21-year-old electronic system that experts call accurate and efficient could make citizens distrust their own democracy -- and introduce opportunities for real fraud.
“Electronic ballots were created to solve the biggest problem in Brazilian democracy, which had always been electoral fraud,” Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso, who heads Brazil’s Electoral Court, said in an interview. “Those who criticize Brazil’s system either forgot how it was in the past or weren’t born yet.”
Jair Bolsonaro gives a thumbs up to members of the media before casting his electronic vote during the first round of presidential elections in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
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Gets visits from Bolsonaros, like this son, Eduardo, wearing a shirt saying "Olavo is right."
Loves to fondle his gun
Loves to say stuff loudly
Goes bankrupt: Olavo de Carvalho is excluded from PayPal and punishes “communists”
Chico Alves on 8/6/2020
The courses taught by the astrologer Olavo de Carvalho can no longer be paid through PayPal, a platform that allows you to transfer money online. The information was given by Olavo himself, the main ideologue of the Pocket Groups. On Facebook , he attributed the company's decision to “communists”.
“Here is the kind of democratic debate that communists practice: they tried so hard that they managed to close my PayPal account,” wrote the astrologer.
In fact, the company's decision was taken after pressure from Sleeping Giants Brasil, a Twitter account that alerts sponsors, supporters and partners of hate content producers on the internet to the damage caused by such sites.
Responding to followers on social networks, Olavo informed that he has other forms of intermediation of online payments.
Sought by the column, the company PayPal said, without specifically citing Olavo de Carvalho, that it has "the commitment to diligently review any PayPal user" to ensure that the services are used in accordance with the "acceptable use policy". It continues, in the text: “PayPal assesses each situation independently and based on our own internal review and review processes. Although we cannot provide customer account details as per company policy."
https://limpinhoecheiroso.com/2020/08/06/vai-falir-olavo-de-carvalho-e-excluido-do-paypal-e-atribui-punicao-a-comunistas/
Claiming fraud 15 months before the election must mean that if he wins then it was fraudulent. 
