Posted on 08/14/2021 6:48:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO – As Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro intensifies his rhetoric against the country’s electoral system, the bishops are raising their voices against what they see as an “erosion of democracy.”
Bolsonaro has been campaigning intensely for a transformation in the South American country’s voting system. In 1996, paper ballots were replaced by voting machines. Although most of the Brazilians have never questioned the method, Bolsonaro has been claiming since his election in 2018 that the voting machines are vulnerable to fraud.
On several occasions, he has said that there will be no elections next year if Brazil fails to adopt a system based on “auditable print votes.” His allies in the armed forces and in Congress are echoing his message, and many in the opposition accuse them of creating an “anti-democratic atmosphere” with the intention of making the 2022 election impossible to hold.
Recent polls showed that 52 percent of the electors intend to vote for former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the 2022 election, against 32 percent supporting Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro has aimed much of his ire at Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, who also heads the Superior Electoral Court. Barroso has continually defended the voting machines and the current system’s reliability.
Bolsonaro has accused him of defending the “return of thievery, of impunity through electoral fraud,” in a reference to Lula. The former president had been convicted in cases of corruption and served 580 days of his sentence at a special prison facility, but a Supreme Court decision annulled his convictions.
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The Catholic Church has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Soros, Inc.
How do voting machines equate.to.”democracy”?
I thought the mission of Catholics was to preach Christ and spread the gospel. Apparently, now it’s all about Marxism.
I may not know all of the facts but it seems the Catholic Church has a track record lately of being wrong about everything and not giving a sh*t about a country’s sovereignty. I agree,they are pretty much owned by Soros as Hitler owned them.
The Roman Empire Church is not my choise for a religious preference. There are however lots of just normal human beings who are Catholic. Somehow it appears that many of the higher ups in the Catholic Church government are friends of Soros. The question arises, “what type of people chose to be dedicated to a life in government?” Easy money? Easy job? Nice benefits? Always worship authority! ?
To be candid, can’t recall the last time Frankie made a mention of Jesus.
Sounds like Dominion Voting Machines were used in another country.
They took down the greatest nation on earth with voting fraud... We are living in a socialist oligarchy now...it is so bad that we are looking to Brazil as a ray of hope for free and fair elections. The current people in charge of our government are the most evil people on earth...they detest and destroy all that is good. PURE EVIL.
Lula is a Communist.
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