Whereas, on October 30, 2022, Brazil’s former President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won the majority of votes cast in a runoff election to become Brazil’s next President over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro; Whereas Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party did well in the 2022 elections, winning 99 seats in the 513-member lower house, 13 of the 81 Senate seats, and 2 Governors’ races, in addition to participating in coalitions that elected at least 6 others; Whereas Bolsonaro made his first public remarks 2 days later, thanking his supporters and encouraging their protests, as long as they remained peaceful, but failing to officially concede to Lula; Whereas Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party asked the electoral court to reject ballots from voting machines deployed before 2020, claiming these models were compromised, notwithstanding that these voting machines represent 61 percent of all voting machines and rejecting these ballots would likely have flipped the election result; Whereas Brazil’s electoral court rejected the challenge against the Presidential election result, stating that the complaint was made in bad faith and fined Bolsonaro’s party 22.9m reais or $4,300,000; Whereas the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court that oversees elections have faced an unprecedented campaign of distrust and public threats to judges largely due to years of Bolsonaro making false claims about the election system including before, during, and after the 2022 electoral process; Whereas, according to independent experts, Brazil’s election officials, and foreign governments, including the United States, there has been no evidence of fraud in the electronic voting machines since Brazil began using them in 1996, despite Bolsonaro’s claims otherwise