Rigged Elections 101 - Brazil

The Brazil election of 2010 was won by Dilma Rousseff seen above with Bill Clinton, she also won in 2014, quite a feat given that she bankrupted the country while spending $11 billion on the 2014 World Cup (for which she was roundly booed by most of the 60,000 fans at the opening game)...so why did she win?

Before I delve into the 2014 election, events in the run up to this years election in October are hotting up. Leading in the opinion polls is Lula da Silva, but he is currently serving 12 years in jail for corruption...and he's just lost his appeal to overturn it. Next to him in the polls is Jair Bolsonaro, and this is where it gets interesting because not only is he very popular with Brazilians...they refer to him as their Trump, but he's also got the backing of Steve Bannon, and the considerable resources that will come with that...the elites definitely won't want Bolsonaro to win. Unfortunately the other day he was stabbed, and it's serious...coincidence? Anyway the latest is that he's stable, so best wishes to him...and I'll be watching this one closely.

So, back to 2014...how did Dilma Rousseff win in 2014? Well...

'This carefully orchestrated coup to the Brazilian democracy was probably done in steps:

1) Dias Toffoli, a mediocre and obscure lawyer and Workers' Party hack, is appointed to the Supreme Court; and in May 2014 assumes the presidency of the Supreme Voting Court, which coordinates and judges all matters regarding the elections. Yes, a former party lawyer is the chief of the elections.

2) The Smartmatic company is chosen in order to take care of all electronic systems and voting machines in the country. Smartmatic started as a small software company in Venezuela, and received funds from the dictator Chavez. It is, as we shall see, accused of fraud.

3) On the evening of the elections, October 26, the whole country waits in expectation. Most of the country finishes voting at 5:00 PM, but voting continues in the state of Acre until 8:00 PM. Therefore, a decision is made for the first time in recent history not to release partial results, but only the final numbers. The easy solution of advancing the election in one hour in Acre was not considered. It was like the US had to wait for Hawaii to vote to know what was happening.

4) The main election poll company, Ibope, which receives millions in contracts with the government and is known to favor the Party in every poll they make, decides not to conduct exit polls.

Rumors on the internet point to a intranet structure that was developed to intercept voting subtotals before they reached the terminals of the analysts. An anonymous insider claims that Dilma was losing by much, until right at the end, when the numbers were adjusted. We'll never know what really happened because the addition of the subtotals will be shown to be legit.'

The above is an extract from this article

The one thing that stands out for me in all this...which I see more and more as I'm doing my research, is the use of Smartmatic Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in elections.

If you read my other 'Rigged Elections?' blog posts you'll see that a lot of them, all over the world including in the EU, do involve Smartmatic, and I think it's important that everybody is aware of them and what they do. At the risk of repeating myself...and I'll keep doing it, political analyst Alek Boyd concluded that :- 

'Smartmatic is yet to run one electoral process, anywhere in the world, in which fraud allegations and irregularities have not been made. From Venezuela to the Philippines, from the USA to Mexico, every single contract awarded to Smartmatic has been marred with allegations of bribes, and corruption'

There'll be a lot more about Smartmatic and it's history in future posts, and UK readers might be particularly interested to know that Smartmatic's chairman Mark Malloch Brown...is also the chairman of Best for Britain!

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Just by way of a disclaimer, I'm making no accusations myself of any wrong doings, I'm just gathering information that's available on-line, which may or may not include accusations by others, and collating it here for your perusal.