Brazilian polling companies have been facing threats of a crackdown after their surveys for the election's first round significantly understated the support for the president and his allies.
Bolsonaro’s right-wing allies in congressional and gubernatorial races also did better than polls indicated.pointing instead to the president’s packed rallies. Those, they said, represented his true support.Justice Minister Anderson Torres requested the Federal Police to investigate polling institutes, writing on Oct. 4 that their conduct appeared to indicate criminal practice, though he didn’t specify what law they might have broken.
The proposal to punish off-base polls goes far beyond previous efforts in Brazil’s Congress to just ban polls in the immediate lead-up to elections so they cannot influence voters’ choices. One such bill passed in the lower house last year, but wasn’t taken up by the Senate. “But this needs to be done calmly and impartially, which isn’t the case right now,” she said, adding that the proposal to punish pollsters is “too extreme.”
Brazil’s association of polling institutions expressed “indignation” at efforts to take legal action against them. It said the country’s polls are “diagnoses, not projections” and follow international standards.
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