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A voter wrapped in a Brazilian flag casting a vote
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During Brazil's presidential election, checkpoints set up by traffic police caused unrest by making it difficult to get to polling stations.
These checks at roadblocks delayed the onward journey of buses carrying voters on Sunday, said the head of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes.
In the meantime, however, the lifting of the locks has been ordered.
The tightened traffic controls took place mainly in the north-east of the country, where the left-wing opposition candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has particularly strong support.
Leaders of Lula's Labor Party (PT) circulated videos of the checkpoints online.
The chief election supervisor, Moraes, later assured that the police controls had only led to a "delay" in voting.
None of the buses were instructed by the police to turn around.
Moraes therefore also refused to extend the opening hours of the polling stations.
In the first round of the presidential election, Lula got 48 percent of the votes, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro got 43 percent.
Nevertheless, the result for him was significantly better than expected: survey institutes had forecast an even greater deficit.
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