Video and photos show Linux booting on the brazilian voting machines (BR-Linux.org) [LWN.net]

Video and photos show Linux booting on the brazilian voting machines (BR-Linux.org)

Posted Oct 15, 2008 19:56 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Video and photos show Linux booting on the brazilian voting machines (BR-Linux.org) by drag
Parent article: Video and photos show Linux booting on the Brazilian voting machines (BR-Linux.org)

A "me too" from Spain: simple paper ballots, manual count and recount, complete results in about 5 hours after polls close. Cheap and well coordinated. Since all political parties audit the results, fraud is unheard of.

For a modern society you need to have electronic counting machines that are open, auditable, and simple.

No, what you need to have is an election mechanism which is open, auditable and simple. Counting can be done by drunken donkeys as far as the system is concerned -- but in fact is done by randomly selected officials, for efficiency.

Why don't you think about simplifying your 18th century election systems instead of making it even more complex? In those days you had to carry the results by horse across vast expanses, so it probably made sense to ask a lot of things at a time. Not now.

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