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I got to vote as a citizen for the first time yesterday

H
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-Spent 30 minutes in the line.


-Proved my citizenship by showing my E-Titulo voting app (or you can use your Titulo ID card) in my phone and proving my ID with an electronic scan of my right thumb print.


-Spent 2 minutes punching the appropriate buttons in the urna.


-Voted for all levels of government at once, except municipal, which makes a whole lot of sense as opposed to where I came from, as you had multiple elections there.


-Got to elect senators, which we could not do either where I came from.


-Voted in a system where the victor for president and governor had to have 50 +1 % to win........not whoever had the most votes overall, and the result was often that some dipshit moron like Justin Trudeau gets elected with around 32%. Not democratic IMHO.


-Went and had pizza afterwards. If you get the inference, you are Brasilian.


Only problem is that the general perception where I was registered to vote is that it was an election of  two bad choices, so, you had to determine which one would do the least amount of damage to the country in the next four years. 25% of the votes cast where I live were "braco or nulo" as well....that is protest votes for no one.

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abthree
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10/06/26  @hagece8690.  Parabéns, and many happy returns!  Basically the same here, except for the pizza part -- we voted right after Mass so it would have been early for that, and it's not really a thing in the North, anyway. 


I had the good luck back when I first registered to be put into what is apparently a very small seção, so I basically walk in and vote; I wait for my Better Half to finish in a different seção, though, so end up spending about the same amount of time in the polling place anyway.  What you gain on the straightaways you lose on the turns, in Brazil as much as anywhere else. 


No candidate here seems to have won for Governor or Mayor in the First Round, so we'll have a pretty full ballot for the Second Round, not just President.  How about there?

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H
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Well, in RJ state, the third place candidate for governor backed out after the election (he only had 3% anyways) so that technically put one of the guys over the 50% threshold yesterday, but, the TSE is involved now, and they want to investigate, because he was under judicial suspicion to begin with, and may have been removed from the election regardless. They probably suspect he was given a sweet deal to withdraw after the vote, which is his style, as he is a total slimeball and was the RJ state governor before.......Fat Tony Garotinho. Otherwise, nothing out of the ordinary.


My wife said to go vote between 1200-130 as that is when everyone wants to eat lunch. So we did.....and walked right in.


Now the fun begins, we get to watch both candidates throw shit on the wall to see what sticks, make crazy promises, lie in public, etc, maybe more scandals on both sides will arise, etc.........I wanna see what big fat juicy promises they were hiding, to see if they hit 50+1% before having to publicize them. Definitely more intriguing than Canadian elections were for sure 😀

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abthree
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10/06/26  Well, in RJ state, the third place candidate for governor backed out after the election (he only had 3% anyways) so that technically put one of the guys over the 50% threshold yesterday, but, the TSE is involved now, and they want to investigate, because he was under judicial suspicion to begin with, and may have been removed from the election regardless. They probably suspect he was given a sweet deal to withdraw after the vote, which is his style, as he is a total slimeball and was the RJ state governor before - @hagece8690

Oh.  My.  God!  😂

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