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Brazilians have been voting electronically for more than a decade
and with local elections scheduled for 5 October, thousands of voting
machines are being deployed to schools and libraries around the country…
“We introduced the digital ballot in 1996
and by the year 2000, 100% of our elections were conducted using this
system,” said Antonio Esio from the Regional Electoral Office…
To make the voting machines easy to use a numeric keyboard was
chosen as the main interface - something familiar to anyone who has
made a phone call.
“It’s quite easy to use because voters only need to type in a number
for the candidates and they can also see the picture of the person
they’re voting for,” said Mr Esio.
“So this system helps illiterate voters, because they can identify
their candidate by a number, and that was a great advance,” he added.
The government also set a challenge to ensure that the cost did not exceed $1000 per machine.
Brazil is introducing fingerprint ID for the machines,
as well. To control the possibility of voter fraud. That would probably
panic the “liberty lobby” in the United States.
Of course there’s an easy way around requirements for
universal fingerprinting. Use standard law enforcement fingerprint ID
software to analyze the votes. That will identify duplicates needing to
be challenged.
And the cost? Well, that’s not important in the United States. Right?
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