Brazilian military and police have tightened security across the country ahead of Sunday's run-off vote between President Dilma Rousseff and her centre-right rival Aecio Neves.
On Friday, thousands of soldiers began deployment to favelas in Rio de Janeiro and several other states.
The troops are to provide logistical help, as well as ensuring law and order.
They will be concentrated mostly in remote areas of the country's less developed northern and western states.
Claudio Pereira is a spokesperson for the Brazilian military police.
"This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, we will have 35-thousand military police officers working for the election, guar
