The Electoral Court aims to ban the use of manipulated voices and images, known as deep fakes, that spread disinformation to undermine the fairness of elections.
The need for a second vote in the mayoral race in cities with 200 thousand inhabitants or more is stipulated by the Constitution and follows the same model adopted in the presidential and gubernatorial elections.
The runoff of the mayoral elections on Sunday (Oct. 30) has seen the waning of Workers' Party (PT) and a growth of the PSDB, its biggest adversary in the past 15 years.
President Michel Temer described the result of the municipal elections as “positive” for the parties in the government's parliamentary base.
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