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

[Félix Robles]

The spanish system of counting votes may sound archaic and obsolete... but
ballots close at about 9pm and at about 12pm about 80-90% of the votes have
been counted. Why try implementing a way more untrustworthy system (and also
way more expensive btw)  just to save us 3 hours every 4 years?

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Natsu <piratenatsu at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> 2008/10/3 Richard M. Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
>
>> If voting machines use software, it should be free software.
>> But just having free software in voting machines does not make
>> it possible to trust them.  We need to be concerned that the
>> manufacturers, or the election authorities, will fiddle with them
>> to steal the election.
>>
>
>
> I don't even understand the use or need for voting machines. In my country,
> the counting is done by random-selected people. People get selected to work
> during the voting day, much as you would select a jury member. They get paid
> a little for their work (60 euros, more or less) and are allowed not to go
> to work the next day. This system was implemented because Spain had suffered
> such a great amount of election-robberies that the only possible solution
> was considered random-people counting (the political parties supervise the
> counting, of course). It is not a perfect system, but at least it's
> tremendously trustworthy. If there are problems, it's because of human
> mistakes, (such as one vote missing up or down), and never because someone
> meddled with the voting machines.
>
> I know it sounds archaic and obsolete, but considering the history of
> problems with voting machines, I have come to find the manual-counting
> system as the best one available. Considering the importance of what's a
> stake in an election, and the fact that it's only every four years, I am
> very much in favor of supervised human counting. Manufacturers and election
> authorities would have much more trouble to fiddle with random-chosen people
> supervised by members of the parties.
>
> Regards,
>
> Natsu
>
>
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