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Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines, the Video
Augusto writes "Just 10 days ago, 130M Brazilian voters were turned into users of one of the largest Linux deployments worldwide: the 400,000 electoral sections in all of the 5,563 Brazilian municipalities were running electronic voting machines, and the Linux kernel was running in all of them. These voting machines have been used in Brazil since 1996, and are rugged, self-contained, low-spec PCs. We've discussed the technical details of this Linux deployment and implementation elsewhere, but I thought it would be interesting to show some pictures (and a movie) of Linux booting on these voting machines. So I asked for official permission and thus was helped by a technician while I took some quick pictures and made a small movie showing the boot process, where you can actually read the kernel messages."
No, you need cards with little holes that get punched out to indicate your selections. Those work much better.
Certainly the Year of Linux!
I just voted in our Canadian federal election and we're still using the pencil-and-paper and human-counted voting method.
Yeah, well, there's only like 47 people living in Canada - that makes things easier to do by hand.
sic transit gloria mundi
I can't decide if you need to start watching more CSI, or less of it.