OEA Calls Brazil’s Electronic Voting System 'Very Solid' as Observers Track Transport Failures on Election Day

Overview

• The OEA mission, which observed voting in 21 states and Brasília on Sunday, said the electronic voting system is "very solid" and that voting was proceeding calmly at the polling places it visited.
• About 88 OEA observers from 22 countries were deployed across the country and in foreign voting hubs to monitor vote operations, audits and the work of Brazil’s Electoral Justice.
• Reports of reduced bus fleets and other transport problems led parties to file complaints with regional electoral courts and prompted orders to restore services, including a TRE‑BA ruling requiring immediate recomposition of Salvador’s bus fleet.
• Federal Police arrested Salvador’s municipal mobility secretary, Pablo Souza, during inquiries into the local reduction in service after inspectors found hundreds of buses idle in company garages.
• The OEA said it found no verified signs of foreign interference and will publish a fuller post‑vote assessment of Electoral Justice and social‑media dynamics in the days after the official results are proclaimed, while judges and authorities continue enforcing measures to protect voters’ access to polling places.