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EXPLAINER: Bolsonaro knocks Brazil’s voting system

Workers at the Elections Disclosure Center prepare an electronic voting machine to demonstrate the system to the press in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Brazil will hold its first round of general elections on Oct. 2 and second round on Oct. 30. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) An LGBT activist wearing a costume in the likeness of an electronic voting machine gathers with others after the reading of two manifestos defending the nation's democratic institutions and electronic voting system outside the Faculty of Law at Sao Paulo University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. The two documents are inspired by the original "Letter to the Brazilians" from 1977 denouncing the brutal military dictatorship and calling for a prompt return of the rule of law. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Judge Alexandre de Moraes stands as he is sworn in as the new head of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the government body that oversees elections, ahead of the Oct. 2 elections in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) FILE - An electoral worker unload electronic ballot machines to be delivered to polling stations in Sao Paulo, Brazil Oct. 30, 2010 ahead of a presidential election runoff. Brazilian authorities adopted electronic voting machines in 1996 to tackle longstanding fraud. In earlier elections, ballot boxes arrived at voting stations already stuffed with votes. Others were stolen and individual votes were routinely falsified, according to Brazil’s electoral authority. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine, File) Presidential election campaign flags featuring the faces of both current President Jair Bolsonaro, front, and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hang for sale outside the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Brazil will hold its first round of general elections on Oct. 2 and second round on Oct. 30. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) A worker at the Elections Disclosure Center demonstrates the electronic voting machine system to the press in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Brazil will hold its first round of general elections on Oct. 2 and second round on Oct. 30. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)