Over the course of four months, Agência Pública investigated the ties between the U.S. alt-right and Jair Bolsonaro to dissect an alliance that has denigrated democracy in the hemisphere’s two largest countries. ON OCTOBER 30, VOTING CLOSED AT 5 PM in most Brazilian electoral sites. It took around three hours for the Superior Electoral Court to announce the results: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former two-term president, had won the election by less than 2 percentage points, defeating incumbent far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil’s fully electronic voting system is considered “a model for the nations of the hemisphere and the world,” according to the U.S. State Department. But not for the U.S. alt-right. After the October 2 first-round vote, when it became clear that Lula had won a 6 million vote lead and would face Mr. Bolsonaro in the runoff, Steve Bannon, a former Donald Trump strategist and friend of the sitting president — recently sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress — and Matthew Tyrmand, a board member of Project Veritas — a conservative organization that uses hidden cameras to expose journalists — raised suspicions about the results on Mr. Bannon’s War Room podcast. “There is fraud there, there was definitely machine fraud,” Mr. Tyrmand said. He based his argument on the fact that Mr. Bolsonaro began the count in the lead, before being overtaken as votes in Lula’s Northeast stronghold were tabulated.
via brazilian report: The U.S. alt-right worked hard to get Bolsonaro re-elected. Here’s how