STF Orders Voting Extended to 7 P.M.; TSE Pauses Vote Counting

Overview

• Widespread reports that public bus fleets were reduced or held in garages prompted both presidential campaigns to ask judges for a two‑hour extension to the 5 p.m. close, with those petitions driving urgent judicial action on Sunday.
• Supreme Court minister Cristiano Zanin granted a liminar extending voting until 19:00 Brasília time but clarified the extension applies only to sections still open when his order was issued.
• The TSE immediately suspended totalization and the public transmission of results after the Zanin order and said it will restart receiving and counting votes once voting ends at 7 p.m.
• Local authorities in Bahia faced the sharpest operational fallout: the TRE‑BA reported about 75 buses retained in Salvador, ordered the immediate restoration of full service and issued an arrest order for the city’s mobility secretary for alleged noncompliance.
• The events delayed when national results could be known, added legal friction between the STF and the TSE, and raised the risk of further local disputes over closed sections and printed precinct reports as officials work to finish counting and secure voter access.