[LINK] Brazillians have been doing electronic voting for years

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Before looking at the story in detail, I took a look on Google News. I 
am of the opinion that someone's PR sought to place a favourable 
e-voting story...
"*Brazil's electronic voting* has safeguards lacking in the US 
<http://www.redding.com/redd/nw_business/article/0,2232,REDD_17527_5065111,00.html>" 
- Record-Searchlight (subscription), CA - Oct 14, 2006
How *Brazil* Might be The Model For E-*Voting* Reform - 
<http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3641956>InternetNews.com - 
Nov 5, 2006
Computerization of *voting* in *Brazil* 
<http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/1732782.php> - 
SF.Indymedia.org, CA - Oct 23, 2006
More on *Voting* in *Brazil - * 
<http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/globalism/archives/107785.asp>Seattle 
Post Intelligencer - Oct 18, 2006

The story in the Seattle PI has the interesting assertion that "100% of 
voters" use e-voting in Brazil. The SMH story notes at least the failure 
rate.
One further comment about this story in particular:

>>
>> 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." 
>
What did I say about delegating democracy to those who can read code? 
Here we have the problem spun as a positive. This is *not* transparency, 
because it's transparency restricted to a sub-group of people (PS: a 
reason that the political class may like and/or endorse e-voting is 
indicated in this very paragraph. "All political parties for auditing" - 
a concentration of part of the process upwards to the parties._).

RC