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Electronic Ballots In The Brazilian Presidential Election

Posted by timothy on from the press-31-to-return-to-the-main-menu dept.

jorlando writes "On Sunday (06-Oct) Brazil will again use electronic ballots for its Presidential Elections. Since a lot of /. readers from time to time talk about the pros and cons of this type of technology, it's a chance to see how it perform well (at least in Brazil...). Representatives from NGOs, ONU and foreign Governments were invited as observers and to see a working electronic votation system in a huge scale, since there are more than 115 million of voters in Brazil ... usually the results of the election are given 4 hours after the closing of the ballots (17:00 Brasilia -3GMT), with a small margin of error, since only 98% of the votes are computed in 4 hours ... some ballots are in places (mostly in far-away rural areas and in the Amazon region) that need to be taken to larger cities to be connected to the vote-download system ... ballots are made by Procomp, the comunication sytem is a VPN-like made by Embratel. The election can be accompanied by the main Brazilian notice sites (http://www.uol.com.br , http://www.estado.com.br, http://www.globo.com and others), mostly only Portuguese, so use the fish!"

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  1. wow, great! by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing Brazil has such a good voting system! It's unfortunate about all the corruption that goes on in third world nations that makes things inaccurate, such as in the recent election in this quant little place called Florida.

    1. Re:wow, great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Clearly, unlike Florida, Brazil is not Bush-league.

    2. Re:wow, great! by dirvish · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, it is disgusting how rampant corruption is in some third world countries. In some places a powerful family will control elections making certain that they remain in power for generations. It is even possible for a president to sucede his father and for brothers to retain power at the same time despite gross incompetence.

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    3. Re:wow, great! by Lord+Sauron · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's almost unthinkable as having a president who is an actor.

      BTW, imagine if we had an actor as president nowadays, what he'd do to MPAA.

      [thinking to myself: Ok, so I mentioned MPAA. If I mention Linux, I'll get a good score. Here it goes.]

      Linux.

  2. Spanish-accented, thick-mustachioed conga dancers by wackybrit · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not so sure that Brazil knows how to hold democratic elections. After all, they're all Spanish-accented, thick-mustachioed conga dancers right? Homer was held ransom for $50,000, Bart was swallowed whole by a boa, and Marge got some 'help' from the police. Certainly not the least corrupt place on the planet.

    The Simpsons has certainly put me off from visiting what I previously thought might be a very nice country. If Brazil isn't suing Fox for defamation, they should.

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  3. Re:Offtopic, but IMPORTANT by Snork+Asaurus · · Score: 2, Funny
    The core temperature of the Sun is normally 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. But in recent years it's climbed to an alarming 49 million degrees.

    I have that problem,too, but taking a couple of Tums usually does the trick.

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  4. Translation question by Raven42rac · · Score: 3, Funny

    how do you say "pregnant chads" in Portuguese?

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  5. Electronic Ballots?? by rat7307 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see it now:

    Announcer:It appears the winner is a "I 0wn J00z" of the "All your base are belong to us" party.

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