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Filming and publicizing the vote on social networks is prohibited by Brazilian electoral legislation to guarantee the secrecy of the vote and avoid embarrassment or coercion.
A voter was located by the Military Police after filming his own vote and publishing the images on a social network during the elections this Sunday (4), in Caiapônia, in the southwest of Goiás. According to the PM, he had left the city and was found in Doverlândia.
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The voter will be notified by the Electoral Court to provide clarification on the act.
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On Sunday 4th, presidential elections in Brazil had voting closed at 5pm Brasília time, with Lula leading in 24 countries abroad and Flávio Bolsonaro ahead in the total number of votes (32,431 against 23,732). The Ministry of Justice registered 527 electoral incidents until 4 pm, including electoral crimes and seizure of campaign materials. The MPE took legal action after Romeu Zema used a cell phone in the voting booth and asked for the removal of false content about ballot boxes. A 106-year-old voter voted in São Paulo.

Senate candidate André do Prado (PL) voted at Escola Ivan Brasil, in Guararema, accompanied by his family and local authorities. Until 3 pm, Operation Elections 2026 in São Paulo recorded 86 incidents and 34 arrests, mostly due to exit polls. In Franca, a 69-year-old woman was arrested for distributing election leaflets. At least 33 electoral zones lost power due to rain, but voting was not interrupted.

Voter Rafaella Cortinoves was unable to vote in the first round of the 2026 elections after a tree fell on her car during a storm in Piracicaba (SP), preventing her from reaching the polling place in the Vila Fátima neighborhood. She was with two friends, who managed to vote at the Professor Antônio de Mello Cotrim school. No one was injured, but another car was hit and a wheelchair user had difficulty accessing the polling station due to the closure of Rua Dona Stella.

The candidate for the government of Ceará Ieri Braga (PCO) voted on Sunday (4) at Colégio Maria Ester II, in Parque Dois Irmãos, in Fortaleza, accompanied by his wife and daughter.

On election Sunday (4), voters in Baixada Santista faced heavy rain, while elderly people like Hermenegildo, 96, and Maurício, 62, who used a skateboard to vote, highlighted their civic engagement. There were isolated cases of irregular distribution of campaign material and a woman fell ill at a polling station in Santos.

Three TSE ministers and assistants to Kassio Nunes Marques and André Mendonça consider the opening of preliminary proceedings by the PF on alleged foreign interference in the 2026 elections to be exaggerated, claiming that the action could judicialize the election and unduly question the results of the polls.