(30 Oct 2006)
1. Zoom in on voting machine in polling station
2. Woman calculating results
3. Various of a number of elections results coming out of a machine
4. Woman taking floppy disk out of polling machine and putting it into an envelope
5. Various of women writing on pieces of paper
6. Woman closing door
7. Wide of woman closing a gate
8. Close of woman locking a gate
STORYLINE:
As the polls closed on Sunday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looked set to win re-election thanks to deep support from poor Brazilians who appeared ready to overlook the corruption scandals that tarnished the government of the country's first working class president.
Silva's leftist Workers Party has been battered for two years by charges of vote-buying and illegal campaign financing, scandals that have cost the former labour leader and lathe operator his reputation as a bastion of political ethics.
But polls indicated da Silva was heading for a landslide victory against his opponent, former Sao Paulo state Governor Geraldo Alckmin, whose tepid campaign style and robotic image failed to win over working-class voters in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor.
Silva earlier voted at a school in the industrial Sao Paulo suburb of Sao Bernardo do Campo, just next to the small house where he lived when he got his start as a union leader.
He said if he wins the election, then the integration of South America will have won.
The final two polls released on Saturday night both showed Silva getting 61 percent support and Alckmin 39 percent, similar to earlier polls.
More than 125 million (m) Brazilians were expected to vote in Sunday's runoff elections for president and for governor in 10 of Brazil's 27 states where elections were not decided in the first round.
The voting was carried out on electronic voting machines and the results were expected from around 10pm local time (0300 GMT).

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