Electoral court renders Jair Bolsonaro ineligible for eight years

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spent most of 2022 saying that Brazil’s electronic voting machines couldn’t be trusted. For his words, he will now be prevented from appearing on any of them until 2030, as the Superior Electoral Court on Friday reached a majority to convict him of abuse of power.

Five of Brazil’s seven electoral justices ruled that Mr. Bolsonaro committed electoral crimes when he used his previous office to sow distrust in the system Brazil uses to choose its representatives. 

On Tuesday, electoral ombudsman Benedito Gonçalves was the first to vote in...