FILE PHOTO: Armed Forces representatives inspect the coding of electronic voting machines that will be used for elections, at the Source Code Inspection Department of the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil. August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's electoral authority on Monday said there was no deal for the military to conduct a parallel vote count during October's election, while a military source also said there was no plan for a count that President Jair Bolsonaro has pushed for.
The president, a far-right former army captain, has made unfounded accusations of electoral fraud and urged the armed forces to conduct their own vote count, as part of a campaign that critics warn is setting him up to refuse to concede defeat. Bolsonaro currently trails in opinion polls to his leftist rival, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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