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IP: The Brazilian version of electronic voting machines
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:43:44 -0500
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:19:55 -0200 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Michael Stanton <michael () ic uff br> Dave The recent electoral tumult in the US led many observers here in Brazil to point to the advantages of the all-electronic voting machines used in Brazilian nationwide elections in October and November, 2000. I understand that the machines htemselves may have been offered for US use as a replacement for the different forms of voting automation in use in your country. What is not often heard abroad, or even here in Brazil, are serious criticisms of the technology being used. In view of the growing interest in developing an alternative to the present systems, I thought you and your readers might like to read what I wrote about the matter back in November, in the immediate aftermath of the Florida voting. The text was originally published in Portuguese, but recently a translation into English has been posted on Rebecca Mercuri's electronic voting page, and may be found at http://www.notablesoftware.com/Press/electronic_voting_in_brasil.htm. The article begins: "The main news of last week was, without a doubt, the still undefined result of the US presidential election, and the vote recount in the state of Florida. It seems that it will still take some time for the final result of this election to be defined, and this has already been the cause for a number of leader-writers and columnists in the Brazilian press to suggest to our neighbours to the North that they ought to adopt the same electronic voting technology which was used in the Brazilian municipal elections in October this year, an experience without parallel in the world for an election on this scale." Best wishes Michael Stanton Instituto de Computação Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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