LXer: The Brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430,000 voting machines to GNU/Li
 

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The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with software digital authentication. The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court), officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing defined by proper law.

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Whoa! Does this mean that the Brazilian Government is committed to honest elections? I have always maintained that no government in power would ever authorize electronic voting machines that could not be rigged. Sure hope this is a high profile story through the election season.