Electronic Ballots In The Brazilian Presidential Election

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!"

Comments

Brazil rules

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear they have a sexy soccer team :drool:

Command Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

I maknerignaeln with a wogjwo

Taint mayonaise!

David Arquette

does anyone have

[Anonymous Coward]

pictures of naked chicks in hockey jerseys?

Re:does anyone have

[Medieval]

If they are wearing hockey jerseys, they aren't naked....

Re:does anyone have

[Anonymous Coward]

pictures of naked chicks in hockey jerseys

Hey dipshit, they aren't naked if they are wearing hockey jerseys.

Re:does anyone have

[Anonymous Coward]

naked other than the jersey of course

Re:does anyone have

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't know that new jersey had naked chicks!

Test #1

[Anonymous Coward]

A good slashdotting of the voting webservers the day before the election.

Gotta write quick!

[Anonymous Coward]

Gonna cum!

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You can say that again!

[Anonymous Coward]

goooooooal!

let's hope

[Raven42rac]

they don't end up voting for pat buchanan

Re:let's hope

[Anonymous Coward]

"CHEGOU A HORA DE TER UM BRASIL DECENTE, VAMOS VOTAR LULA PRESIDENTE! "

As the results of the recents polls show, let's hope we'll have a (moderate) leftist president in Brasil, after decades of military/fascist/neoliberal goverments. That can only be good, for Brasilians as good as for the rest of South America (I'm from Argentina).
Sure Bush, Rumsfeld and other fascists in the north are not very pleased with this... sorry for you guys.

Offtopic, but IMPORTANT

[Patrick McRotch]

I just read this. Unbelievable . . .

The Sun Will Explode In Less Than Six Years!
Wednesday September 18, 2002

By GEORGE SANFORD

The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up . . . taking Earth and the rest of the solar system with it, scientists warn.

The alert was issued after an international satellite photographed a massive explosion on the surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 30 times longer than the diameter of Earth blasting into space.

"It's a sign that the Sun is ready to blow . . . I don't know if I can put it any more plainly than that," says Dutch astrophysicist Dr. Piers Van der Meer, a top expert affiliated with the European Space Agency.

"It will be like a nuclear bomb trillions of times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima going off at the center of our solar system.

"When that happens Earth will be instantly incinerated along with all life on it. It's like when a marshmallow falls into a fire, blackens and melts."

Scientists say the problem is the Sun is literally getting too hot.

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, says Dr. Van der Meer, leader of a team of Amsterdam-based space scientists who've been tracking the changes in the Sun.

"It's quite similar to when a star goes supernova at the end of its life," Dr. Van der Meer explains. "Over the past 11 years, we've seen our Sun go through changes frighteningly like those that took place in Kepler's Star right before it was observed going supernova in 1604."

Temperatures on the surface of the Sun have been steadily climbing over the past decade, the scientists say.

"This, we believe, not man-made pollution, is responsible for global warming and the alarming effects that we've seen take place on Earth such as the melt-down of the Antarctic ice shelves," asserted Dr. Van der Meer.

The July 1 images were taken by the space-based Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a satellite designed to study the internal structure of the Sun and operated jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency.

"The explosion . . . known technically as an eruptive prominence . . . was colossal," said Dr. Van der Meer. "This is the final warning sign we've all been dreading."

The Dutch scientists calculate that if temperatures keep climbing at the current rate the Sun will be unable to sustain itself.

"It will blow apart like an out-of-control nuclear reactor within six years," predicts Dr. Van der Meer.

NASA refuses to confirm the Euro-pean scientists' assertions and a White House source said, "We don't need anyone spreading more panic now."

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20020918/1032361200 09 .html

I, for one, will take this horrendous news as an opportunity to reevaluate my priorities and stop wasting so much of my precious remaining time reading /.

**IDIOT MODERATORS ALERT**

[Anonymous Coward]

Look, I prominently warned that my comment was offtopic. Therefore, you have no call to moderate it as such. Moreover, did you actually READ THE ARTICLE (from Yahoo, no less)??? I think this type of news supercedes such social niceties as "ontopicness". THE SUN IS GOING TO EXPLODE in six years. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

Re:American Democracy

[Anonymous Coward]

>And what other country has given even one life, let >alone thousands and thousands, to free people from >other countries, to bring them democracy. American >blood saved the world. A little thanks might be nice

Well, thank you! Thank you for nuking Japan, for opressing the other countries with your outstanding nucler power.

Thank you for placing embargos against poor countries just because they don't agree with your politics.

Thanks a lot for droping TWO nukes over Japan.

Thank you for kicking the mexican's asses and stealing 50% of their land (most of New Mexico and Texas).

Thank you so much for holding the Panama's ... for about 30 years against their will and getting the profit out of it.

Thank you for being overly democratic in the UN, making everyone do what the UN decides, but doing whatever US wants despite UN's decisions.

Thank you for making billions of lifes more pitiful to give your own citizens all the freedom, money and comfort they have.

Thank you for your hypocritical ideals of freedom, where black people, latinos, asians and all those who are not white have to live in your country under serious prejudice.

Thank you for Kyoto, thank you for making every country sign deals not to produce nuclear and mass destruction weapons, but not taking the deal yourselves.

I can't say thank enough for all of these precious gifts you gave to the world and so many more that I just can't remember.

But the most important, thank YOU for opening my eyes to see how wonderful the US is and how it contributed to make the rest of the world a bitter, I mean, a 'better' place to live.