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by matheusmoreira 1261 days ago
> The only thing insane about this election was

So you have nothing to say about the blatant disproportional censorship that goes on to this day? Electoral justice court judges that openly favored Lula? Who even admitted to it and were proud of their partiality?

> The "armed forces report" says only

Did you read it? The Makefile that builds the voting machine software downloads and links unaudited closed source third party libraries from the internet.

You actually trust this? I can deal with the fact laymen on social media didn't understand the problem but I sure as hell didn't expect to see Hacker News users defending this crap. Literally days ago there was news here about some compromised Python library.

Besides, they don't have to prove fraud. The mere possibility of fraud is more than enough to cast doubt on any results produced by that process. It's up to the authorities to demonstrate that it's immune to fraud. Why should a people cede power to any politician if they aren't absolutely sure the election was legit?

> the armed forces were fully willing to support Bolsonaro in a coup, and only gave up because he screwed up every possible internal and external support for this

Can you elaborate on this? Because what I saw was huge masses of people begging them to do something and being ignored. All that's left is for Lula to order the armed forces to remove the protesters like he said he would.

What support did he screw up? Because it looks like he had none to begin with. Not surprising really, Bolsonaro put his foot in his mouth on a daily basis for all 4 years of his mandate. He isolated himself from everyone.

> But your descriptions of what is happening in Brazil are just plain wrong.

And I suppose yours is better?

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> The Makefile that builds the voting machine software downloads and links unaudited closed source third party libraries from the internet.

So you're saying that it's just your average npm project. Boring stuff.

Would you trust US election results if it was produced by some random amalgamation of javascript libraries downloaded straight from npm? I don't think the report mentioned if they even used HTTPS to download the code.

Surely the bar for the process that determines the future of the nation ought to be a lot higher than that. Surely this is not controversial.