IP: The Brazilian version of electronic voting machines

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>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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