[pp.int.general] GNU/Linux-powered voting machines in Brazil

[Pedro Cardoso de Carvalho e Freitas]

Hello, I'm also from Brazil, and have been in this list for quite a long
time, although just watching. But seeing that Brazil is the topic, I thought
I could jump in. I if remember correctly, on one of the first elections with
the voting machines (2002, I think), there was an experiment on the machines
at the Federal District: they would print the vote. I think the idea was to
count the votes electronicaly, and faster, and then confirm/compare it with
the manual counting, to eliminate the possibilities of fraud in the voting
machines.

I have no idea why this project didn't go on.

Pedro

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Félix Robles <redeadlink at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Carlos Ayala <aiarakoa at yahoo.es> wrote:
>
>> Of course we can conclude that today's electronic voting machines don't
>> meet such requirements and, thus, are not trustable. Regards
>>
>
> That's my reading.  Yes, electronic voting has some advantages, but if we
> focus on the main point, that is preventing rigged elections, manual
> counting of votes is the winner. And it will be for many years, until
> everyone has at least the same understanding on electronic voting machines
> than we have on manual counting of votes.
>
> I can wait 8 hours to get the results of the elections.
>
> Felix Robles
>
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