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In accordance with the electronic democracy
site (ww.e-democrat.org), the electronic ballot boxes to
be used in the election of 2008, which chooses the new mayors and
councillors from all over Brazil, will inaugurate the use of Linux
operating system, and in three counties selected for testing, the
use of biometrics for identification of voter.
The initiatives are part of the strategy
of the Electoral Superior Court (TSE) “to improve the
security and the transparency of the process”, according to
Giuseppe Dutra Janino, secretary of technology of the information
of the TSE.
According to Janino, in interview to
Reuters, “it has some campaigns in the direction to stain
this process”, but, in the 12 years where Brazil if uses of
electronic ballot boxes, “no fraud was proven”,
affirmed.
The decision to substitute the operational
systems VirtuOS and Windows CE for the Linux in 100 percent of the
480 a thousand ballot boxes of the country will have three
advantages, in accordance with the secretary.
Read more in the electronic democracy
site.
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