1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting

Posted by timothy on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:10AM from the countrymen-lend-me-your-fingers dept.

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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Re:GODDAMNIT by marcosdumay · 2012-03-30 11:37 · Score: 5, Informative

It is because of that anonimity requirement.
Anonimity makes it impossible to make a secure (in the mathematical sense) election. The best we can do is to make the flaws hard to exploit, what is a completely diferent problem from securing an ATM.

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