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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!"
But where else you gonna see people climb into rickety rafts, hop barbed wire fences and make a mad dash, or store up in the holds of cargo ships for weeks, just for a chance to live?
Australia. Europe. A lot of other places too. And unfortunately this kind of migration has been happening for centuries.
the world hates us because we have so much.
Er no. One of the reason my other "first" world people find certain American's annoying (hate is perhaps too strong a word) is because of ignorant comments like this.
America is the model for the world.
There are many people who might dispute that. America has many good features, but it also has some bad features. (Yes, like everywhere else). But there are few people outside of America who would call it a model to follow.