<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
<br>I have no idea why this project didn't go on.<br><br>Pedro<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Félix Robles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:redeadlink@gmail.com">redeadlink@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Carlos Ayala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aiarakoa@yahoo.es" target="_blank">aiarakoa@yahoo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of course we can conclude that today's electronic voting machines don't meet such requirements and, thus, are not trustable. Regards</div>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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. <br>
<br>I can wait 8 hours to get the results of the elections.<br><br>Felix Robles<br></div></div></div>
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