Brazil runoff live updates: ballot count resumes after two-hour voting extension

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Brazil’s presidential runoff ballot count resumed after voting was extended by two hours under a Supreme Court order. The report names Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as awaiting results and describes disputes over bus service, alleged electoral offenses, and further extension requests amid heavy rain.

Polls officially close after Brazilian ⁠supreme court ordered the extension Sunday as Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva await results The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an “official mission”, and is not expected to return to Brazil until Monday. Late in the afternoon, Flávio Bolsonaro also filed requests for voting to be extended by two hours in cities in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, but because of heavy rain that he said had prevented voters from turning out. Continue reading...