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His allegations are easily disprovable or provable. Every eletronic ballot in Brazil prints the vote count for each candidate before leaving the voting room. S

by aylons 13y ago

His allegations are easily disprovable or provable. Every eletronic ballot in Brazil prints the vote count for each candidate before leaving the voting room. Several copies of this report are printed, every citizen may ask for each and political parties often do it. I do it for the ballot I vote. However, he claims to tamper the results after that, during the data consolidation process, when data from every ballot is summed. So, to prove him right, it is only a matter of checking if the ends meet. Apparently, they meet. No political party has ever contested the results based on this difference. Not to say Brazilian voting system is infallible - there are many problem with it. But this is not one.

personlurking 13y ago
"Apparently, they meet." What makes you say that, if I may ask? I noticed Globo/Folha/et al haven't reported on this despite it having been revealed in December of last year. ___ On a side note... Anyone who speaks Portuguese, I recommend the documentary "Vocação do Poder", that follows 6 electorial candidates in Rio while on the campaign trail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8_oz6lsbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8_oz6lsbE For those who don't speak Portuguese, search out the documentary "Send a Bullet" which looks at crime and fraud in Brazil.
- aylons 13y ago
  You may go to the TSE website and check every ballot's vote count and check against the printed voting report. Voters and political parties have access to the printed copies of each ballot's report, printed before the ballot leaves the voting room. I used to work at the elections and I know they do, indeed, request these reports even before the ballot even leaves the room. If you want to check a posteriori, the reports signed by everyone who worked at the voting room, plus the political parties representatives, are available at the electoral courts for anyone to check them. As no one, specially no losing political party or this very guy who claims to have tampered the vote count, has ever came with an inconsistent ballot report, I can say that apparently, this is not a kind fraud that happens. As I said, there are many problems with the current e-voting system in Brasil. The machines are closed-source, and there are no way to check the vote during the voting process. But once the reports are printed, they are as good as any paper ballot, as this report works as well as a traditional manual voting counting report. Actually, better, as we can print several copies of the report in a distributed way.

by aylons 13y ago

personlurking 13y ago

"Apparently, they meet." What makes you say that, if I may ask? I noticed Globo/Folha/et al haven't reported on this despite it having been revealed in December of last year. ___ On a side note... Anyone who speaks Portuguese, I recommend the documentary "Vocação do Poder", that follows 6 electorial candidates in Rio while on the campaign trail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8_oz6lsbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8_oz6lsbE For those who don't speak Portuguese, search out the documentary "Send a Bullet" which looks at crime and fraud in Brazil.

aylons 13y ago
You may go to the TSE website and check every ballot's vote count and check against the printed voting report. Voters and political parties have access to the printed copies of each ballot's report, printed before the ballot leaves the voting room. I used to work at the elections and I know they do, indeed, request these reports even before the ballot even leaves the room. If you want to check a posteriori, the reports signed by everyone who worked at the voting room, plus the political parties representatives, are available at the electoral courts for anyone to check them. As no one, specially no losing political party or this very guy who claims to have tampered the vote count, has ever came with an inconsistent ballot report, I can say that apparently, this is not a kind fraud that happens. As I said, there are many problems with the current e-voting system in Brasil. The machines are closed-source, and there are no way to check the vote during the voting process. But once the reports are printed, they are as good as any paper ballot, as this report works as well as a traditional manual voting counting report. Actually, better, as we can print several copies of the report in a distributed way.