Electronic Ballots In The Brazilian Presidential Election 298
jorlando writes "On Sunday (06-Oct) Brazil will again use electronic ballots for its Presidential Elections. Since a lot of /. readers from time to time talk about the pros and cons of this type of technology, it's a chance to see how it perform well (at least in Brazil...). Representatives from NGOs, ONU and foreign Governments were invited as observers and to see a working electronic votation system in a huge scale, since there are more than 115 million of voters in Brazil ... usually the results of the election are given 4 hours after the closing of the ballots (17:00 Brasilia -3GMT), with a small margin of error, since only 98% of the votes are computed in 4 hours ... some ballots are in places (mostly in far-away rural areas and in the Amazon region) that need to be taken to larger cities to be connected to the vote-download system ... ballots are made by Procomp, the comunication sytem is a VPN-like made by Embratel. The election can be accompanied by the main Brazilian notice sites (http://www.uol.com.br , http://www.estado.com.br, http://www.globo.com and others), mostly only Portuguese, so use the fish!"
wow, great! (Score:5, Funny)
Spanish-accented, thick-mustachioed conga dancers (Score:1, Funny)
The Simpsons has certainly put me off from visiting what I previously thought might be a very nice country. If Brazil isn't suing Fox for defamation, they should.
Re:wow, great! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Offtopic, but IMPORTANT (Score:2, Funny)
I have that problem,too, but taking a couple of Tums usually does the trick.
Translation question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:wow, great! (Score:5, Funny)
Electronic Ballots?? (Score:5, Funny)
Announcer:It appears the winner is a "I 0wn J00z" of the "All your base are belong to us" party.
Re:wow, great! (Score:3, Funny)
BTW, imagine if we had an actor as president nowadays, what he'd do to MPAA.
[thinking to myself: Ok, so I mentioned MPAA. If I mention Linux, I'll get a good score. Here it goes.]
Linux.