Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s party asked the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) on Tuesday to annul votes from more than 280,000 electronic boxes, arguing that “dysfunctions” would prevent him from being re-elected over Lula, AFP reported.

“We demand to invalidate the votes from the electronic boxes, in which insurmountable malfunctions were detected, and to bear the legal consequences regarding the results of the second round of voting on October 30,” says the complaint filed by the Liberal Party (PL). .

The formation, which received the largest number of deputies and senators in the parliamentary elections, believes that the “malfunction” of five ballot box models “calls into question the transparency of the election process.”

PL claims that these dysfunctions were demonstrated in an audit report commissioned by the party.

According to PL’s lawyer, more than 280,000 electronic boxes that were used during the elections were of a problematic series.

According to the PL count, the annulment of the votes from these ballot boxes would have given Jair Bolsonaro a victory with 51.05% of the vote, almost the opposite of the official result (50.9% for Lula, 49.1% for the outgoing president).

TSE President Alexandre de Moraes responded to the complaint by explaining that these ballot box models were used not only in the second but also in the first round on October 2.

He therefore requested that the complaint “apply to both rounds” or it would be dismissed.