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São Paulo

State in the Southeast Region of Brazil

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Oct 20, 2025
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What are the main reasons eligible voters did not cast ballots in the 2024 election?

Voter non-participation in 2024 stemmed from a mix of , with patterns varying by election type and country. Analyses from U.S., Brazil, Mexico, and state-level sources show overlapping explanations — ...

Oct 18, 2025
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How are protest attendance numbers typically calculated and verified?

Protest attendance is commonly estimated using , a method documented in September 2025 counts that produced estimates around 41,800–42,400 people with an explicitly reported . Independent monitors and...

Feb 1, 2026

Have taxpayers ever funded luxury decor at other official residences worldwide?

Taxpayer money has been used to buy and to renovate and maintain official residences in multiple documented cases, most clearly in the Canadian Global Affairs disclosures that list six-figure totals a...

Feb 1, 2026

What monitoring and extraction data exist showing withdrawal rates by country and how might climate change alter recharge patterns of the Guaraní Aquifer?

Monitoring of the has improved but remains spatially uneven: regional modeling and satellite gravity studies have provided basin‑scale signals while national withdrawal inventories are fragmented, wit...

Jan 29, 2026

Between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay in which countries are Guarani aquafier chemically treated?

Available reporting and project documentation make clear that the System underlies , , and and supplies municipal and regional water systems in all four countries, but none of the provided sources exp...

Oct 20, 2025

How did the no kings protest on October 18 compare to other recent protests in terms of turnout?

The October 18 “No Kings” protests generated with thousands gathering in major U.S. cities and hundreds to thousands in smaller communities, making them but not conclusively proven to be the single la...

Oct 19, 2025

What methods are used to estimate attendance at large protests like No Kings?

Crowd estimates for large protests typically combine aerial imagery analyzed with counting software, on-the-ground sampling, and model-based extrapolations, but methods vary and carry substantial unce...

Oct 19, 2025

Can social media and aerial photography be used to estimate protest attendance?

Aerial photography combined with social-media imagery can produce actionable estimates of protest attendance, as demonstrated by the University of São Paulo’s Monitor analyses that put recent Copacaba...

Oct 19, 2025

rally count

The phrase "rally count" is used across the provided materials to mean different things: event attendance totals for sports and motorsport festivals, estimated crowd sizes at political demonstrations ...