1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting

MatthewVD writes "Brazil is on a massive fingerprinting spree, with the goal of collecting biometric information from each of its 190 million citizens and identifying all voters by their biological signatures by 2018. The country already has a fully electronic voting system and now officials are trying to end fraud, which was rampant after the military dictatorship ended. Dissenters complain that recounts could be impossible and this opens the door for new kinds of fraud. Imagine this happening in the U.S."

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Simpler solution: Bring back the Junta

[PolygamousRanchKid]

I mean, like, the answer is right there in the summary:

now officials are trying to end fraud, which was rampant after the military dictatorship ended.

So, ironically, it seems that Brazil had a better democracy under a dictatorship.

Plus, any real South American country should have a military dictatorship anyway. There's just something missing without one.