More than 100 million Brazilians voted Sunday — the third election this year, the first two being in Indonesia and India — in which more than 100 million people voted, more than the 86 million people who voted in U.S. elections for the House of Representatives in 2010. The final returns are not quite in as I write, but according to Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, with about 98 percent are in within five hours, in contrast to our largest state of California, which in recent years has taken five weeks to count all its votes.
The returns show the incumbent president, Dilma Rousseff, with 42 percent of the vote, to 34 percent for Aécio Neves and 19 percent for Marina Silva. Since no candidate had a majority, there will be a runoff between Dilma and Aécio on Oct. 26.
