Brazil migrates voting machines to GNU/Linux
All 430,000 of them
THE BRAZILIAN Electoral Supreme Court announced last Friday that Brazil's 2008 elections will use 430,000 electronic voting machines running GNU/Linux and open sauce voting applications.
The voting machines will be migrated from VirtuOS and Microsoft Windows CE to GNU/Linux and open sauce software in order to meet legal requirements for security and auditability.
Software experts from political parties will have access to all voting machine software from April through September to search for problems and suggest improvements.
All software loaded onto the machines will be digitally signed to guard against unauthorised modifications, with official authentication verifiable by inspectors at voting places at any time to detect tampering.
Precautions such as blocking all network connectivity will be taken to prevent hacking, and randomly selected machines will be audited by representatives of the Electoral Supreme Court, political parties and external auditors.
When Brazil's election is over, maybe the US should invite a few Brazilians up north to show North American elections officials how to set up a truly honest, secure, transparent and trustworthy touch screen electronic voting system. µ
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God forbid! You want Bill Gates to be poor? How is he going to save the planet then? We can't have that sorry!Proud
Brazil is a chaos in many ways, but if there is one thing that works in this God-forsaken country is the voting system. Is there any other country that can count 99% of the votes in the same day, without frauds? Even with 180 million citizens? Now that is something!Can't bring Brazilians north
No airlines make stopovers at Guantanamo Bay, and the US economy is too weak to afford routing them through the London Underground.some other facts
During the last elections, lots of voting machines in the district that i live gave EXACTLY the same percentage of votes to the same candidates... (those running for lower ranking , local offices)Not to mention that there is still no paper trail, which is the biggest problem of all. So, whatever the machines report is gospel and can't be checked...
That being said, the voting system, the secrecy and the behavior of the involved parties in the USA are a complete disgrace. Bush stole the first election judicially, and the second, electronically.
Governments all around the globe will go electronic because it's cheaper and easier to cheat.
As said by Stalin: 'It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes'
truly honest, secure, transparent and trustworthy
I wouldn't call such a system like this while they don't remove that suspicious cable that connects the id-registering machine to the very voting machine.Couldn't agree more
I couldn't agree more with your last paragraph. 10-20 years ago it would be laughable that Brazil would have elections that are more fair than the U.S. Now it is laughable if you think any part of the U.S. voting system works right.Unfortunately, this is probably more true than it should ever be:
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks
Not touch screen
These machines aren't actually touch screen. They have a small numerical keyboard where you punch in the candidate's 'number'. These things have to be fool and bullet proof, since they have to be taken deep into the amazon forest and still work... no kiddin'!Open Sauce
What flavour will that Open Sauce be? Is it spicey? Is it sweet and sour? And what is the source of this sauce?Open 'Sauce' Rules
Open Sauce is no much better than Haute Sauce.grammar
open sauce?we need them badly in USA
US should fallow and say no to diabold machines