At around 4pm, the Monsenhor João Soares School, in Jardim Carandá, also in the North of Sorocaba (SP), had no queues. According to inspectors, the movement was peaceful. The same happened at Renice Seraphin School, which is in the same neighborhood.
Different regions of the country registered queues and slowness to vote this Sunday (4), the first round of the 2026 Elections. Voting is scheduled to end at 5 pm, Brasília time, but voters who are still in line at that time will also have the right to vote. See more details here.
Voting will close at 5pm. Upon entering the room, the voter can ask the poll workers for help, but only regarding the voting order, never about the vote. If necessary, voters with disabilities or reduced mobility can be assisted by a person of their choice, with the helper even being allowed to enter the numbers into the ballot box. The assistant must identify himself before the table receiving votes.
After heavy rain, voters attended CEI-13 Aluísio de Almeida in Brigadeiro Tobias, in Sorocaba (SP). At around 3:30 pm, there were approximately 20 voters per line in each of the four sections of the site.
In Votorantim (SP), a ballot box at the Comendador Pereira Inácio State School, in Barra Funda, needed to be changed and had a battery problem. According to TV TEM, there was a power outage in three other voting locations. The longest period was at Escola Municipal Cândido dos Santos, in Green Valley, which was without supply for 1h15. In two other municipal schools (Patrícia Maria dos Santos, in Jardim São Mateus, and Walter Rocha Camargo, in Promorar), the interruption lasted 20 minutes. CPFL was activated and power has now been restored to all locations.
Three trees fell in Pilar do Sul (SP), with no impact on voting, but causing traffic disruption: on Rua Coronel Moraes Cunha, in front of the Municipal Velório; at Escola Municipal Célia Antunes, which is not a voting location and was empty; and on the José Mercer local road, which connects Pilar do Sul to Tapiraí. The José Mineiro Party Enclosure had part of its roof uncovered.
In Taquarituba (SP), a 2015 model ballot box needed to be replaced at the José Penna State School. Voting continued normally after the replacement. In Arandu (SP), external contingency batteries were used to keep the polls functioning. Power has now been restored and voting continues without changes. There was also a power outage in Itaí (SP), Paranapanema (SP) and São Miguel Arcanjo (SP).
The rains caused several problems in the Itapetininga region (SP). In Itararé (SP), a ballot box was replaced at Escola Maria Jesus and the power outage affected three sections at Escola Alice Fonseca Braga, in the Santa Cruz dos Lopes neighborhood. The supply has now been normalized and all ballot boxes operate connected to the electricity grid, without the need for continuous use of batteries. The ceiling of a voting room that was given away at EMEF Prof. Miguel de Góes, in Fartura (SP), has already been repaired and continues normally. An electronic voting machine was replaced at EM Pedro Soldera, in Taguaí (SP).
Some cities were left without electricity due to the storm in the early afternoon of this Sunday, hampering voting. Civil Defense released a ranking showing the highest wind gusts:
Araçatuba-SP: 112.7 km/h
Dracena-SP: 107.8 km/h
Adamantina-SP: 96.6 km/h
Glicério-SP: 89.5 km/h
Bauru-SP: 89.3 km/h
Iperó-SP: 82.8 km/h
Itu-SP: 80.6 km/h
According to TRE-SP, in all municipalities in the interior, of the total of 85,683 machines, 91 were replaced (0.106%). In general, only 0.102% of the more than 114 thousand ballot boxes underwent replacements.
Two more voting locations in the region of Itapetininga (SP) were left without electricity due to the storm. One in the Faxinal dos Almeidas neighborhood, in São Miguel Arcanjo (SP), and another at the Vereador Odilon School, in Pilar do Sul (SP).
A section of Avenida J. J. Lacerda, which connects the north zone to the industrial zone of Sorocaba (SP), was flooded after the storm earlier this Sunday (4). Avenida 15 de Agosto has been closed to traffic since the early hours of the morning due to the accumulation of water on the road after the rain recorded on Saturday (3).
Councilor João Batista de Souza Barros Filho, better known as João Pintor (PSD), was arrested this Sunday (4) in Campo Limpo Paulista (SP) suspected of electoral crime during voting in the 1st round of the 2026 Elections. Check out the g1 report.
In Jundiaí (SP), according to TV TEM, two ballot boxes needed to be replaced, at Sesi and at Escola Estadual Adoniro Ladeira. In Itupeva (SP), there were three, at the Tereza Angelina Lourençon, Padre José de Anchieta and Professor Edson Eduardo Ramos da Silva schools.
