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posted by cmn32480 on Friday December 04 2015, @09:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-for-hanging-chads dept.

Sky News reports

It was one of the world's early adopters of high-tech electronic voting. [Now, however, Brazil will] revert to using paper [ballots] because it cannot afford to run the electoral computer systems.

The Superior Electoral Court has had its funding cut by the equivalent of £75M--in the middle of a tender for computer systems for next year's elections.

The process was due to be finalised this month but has been thwarted by the government cuts and voters will now cast their ballots using paper instead.

The court says the move will cause "irreversible and irreparable damage" and says the public interest is at threat.

A statement read: "The biggest impact of the budget cuts is around the purchasing of electronic voting equipment, as bidding and essential contracting is already under way and to be concluded by end of December."

El Reg notes

Brazil has had electronic voting in some form since 1996, when it first trialled systems in the state of Santa Catarina. The system was subject to criticism in 2014, when ZDNet Brazil reported on university tests that suggested the system wasn't sufficiently secure against fraud.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @04:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @04:02PM (#271826)

    I thought the Billions we pissed away at systems like these were meant to "save us Billions more! And not make our cronies even Filthier Richer, promise, scout's honor, cross my heart!." So why is the system more expensive in Brazil than their paper ballot system?

    I really want to move to Mars, declare myself Emperor, and hold no elections just so I can stop having to deal with these theatrics around the robing and raping of the public.