FIRST ROUND The candidates who finished in: 3rd) Augusto Cury: 3,448,569 votes 4th) Renan Santos: 2,675,887 votes 5th) Ronaldo Caiado: 2,605,148 votes 6th) Romeu Zema: 326,488 votes TOTAL: 9,056,092 votes SECOND ROUND Lula received 10,376,694 more votes than he did in the first round. It’s as if he had secured every single vote cast for these candidates, none of whom are left-wing, plus another 1,320,602 votes, becoming the most popular president in Brazil’s entire history. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. UNACCEPTABLE! Especially since the vote counting was halted for two hours.

TRANSLATION: First Round Abstentions: 33.5 million (21%) Blank votes: 2.3 million (2%) Invalid votes: 3.7 million (3%) Voter turnout: 125.3 million (79%) Other candidates: 9.5 million (8%) Second Round Abstentions: 30.4 million (21%) Blank votes: 1.4 million (1%) Invalid votes: 2.7 million (2%) Voter turnout: 128.1 million (81%) Lula: 64.1 million (51.8%) Flávio: 59.7 million (48.2%) Between abstentions, blank votes, and invalid votes, they somehow found 5 million additional votes. Add that to the 9.5 million votes cast for other candidates in the first round, and you have a pool of approximately 14 million new votes. Flávio gained 4 million votes, going from 56 million to 60 million. Lula gained 10 million votes, going from 54 million to 64 million. All figures are rounded. Of this pool of 14 million votes, Flávio received 29%, while Lula received 71%. And this happened despite the fact that 10 million of those 14 million votes came from voters who had supported other candidates with more right-leaning political profiles. The whole thing is so extraordinary that it is extremely difficult to believe. It’s as if, in just three weeks, voters who had signaled a turn to the right suddenly made a sharp turn to the left. It’s hard not to think about those two extra hours.