Thu Nov 24, 2022 – 12:39 pm EST
BRASILIA, Brazil (LifeSiteNews) — The Superior Electoral Court of Brazil has tossed out a challenge by conservative parties allied with incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against the outcome of the presidential election, fining the coalition just under 23 million reais ($4.3 million).
The Liberal Party of Brazil, to which Bolsonaro belongs, filed a 33-page legal challenge on Tuesday against the outcome of the nation’s recent presidential election in which the incumbent reportedly lost by less than two percent of the vote to socialist opponent and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Members of the Liberal Party claimed that they had found “signs of serious failures that generate uncertainties and make it impossible to validate the results generated” in electronic voting machines, affecting some 280,000 devices, thus asking the court to “apply the legal consequences it deems necessary.” With Lula having won on a razor thin margin, invalidating the votes in question would swing the vote to just over 51 percent for Bolsonaro, making him the victor.
The court gave Bolsonaro’s party 24 hours to present evidence of their findings, but after failing to come through on the request
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