Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers! Today, we will be thankful if Brazil wins its World Cup debut. We also address the unusual punishment against the president’s coalition for trying to upturn the electoral results. And Nubank’s latest move in Mexico.
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Against electoral misinformation, Moraes brings the hammer down
Alexandre de Moraes, Brazil’s chief electoral justice, dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Jair Bolsonaro’s coalition discrediting the October 30 electoral results. Justice Moraes considered the move “preposterous” and “reckless,” and slapped a massive, BRL 23 million (USD 4.3 million) fine on the coalition for bad-faith litigation.
Action … The president’s group on Tuesday filed a petition claiming that ID numbers of older models of voting machines (roughly 60 percent of the total used in the elections) cannot be retrieved, although they use the same updated source code as newer models. The allegations, based on a report by a shady company, are unfounded.
- The coalition says results from these machines should not be included in the final vote...