[LINK] Brazillians have been doing electronic voting for years

[Kim Holburn]

But it looks like they thought the process through at least in part.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/for-brazillians-pushbutton- 
approach-is-nothing-new/2006/11/13/1163266481863.html

> For Brazillians, push-button approach is nothing new
>
> By LIA TIMSON
> November 14, 2006
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> Electronic voting has grabbed headlines in the US, but Brazil's 126  
> million voters have been doing it for years.
>
> The country went to the electronic ballot box last month for  
> general and presidential elections and learnt the results within  
> two hours of the voting closing.
>
> The 10-year-old system uses in-house built software with hardware  
> by Unisys and Diebold. Stand-alone terminals run on mains and  
> battery power and are used even in remote villages along the shores  
> of the Amazon. They display candidate photographs for illiterate  
> voters.
>
> Once voting closes, the machines print the results for public  
> display and download encrypted files on to discs.
>
> IT secretary Giuseppe Janino says the secret to the success of the  
> process is transparency.
>
> "We make every line of code available to all political parties for  
> auditing," he says. "In the last week, the program is finalised in  
> front of them and digital signatures issued for each box's memory  
> card. On start-up the box will automatically freeze if the digital  
> signature and hash records don't match."
>
> About 2499 of the 400,000 terminals (0.69 per cent) were replaced  
> because of glitches unrelated to fraud, and 90 locations reverted  
> to paper ballots.



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