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Brazilian presidential election today!

Dilma Roussef. 15 40.54%
 
Aécio Neves. 22 59.46%
 
Total:37
BraveNewWorld on 26 October 2014
ktay95 said:
WagnerPaiva said:
 

Haha this is how I feel. But here in Australia we use paper ballots so I just draw funny faces on it =P

(We are forced to vote or we are fined)


That's bullshit.

1. Your civil rights are being infringed upon.

2. It forces even more uneducated, willfully ignorant, government-handout-seeking voters into voting for people they no nothing about.



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Moren on 26 October 2014

How long until we know?



WagnerPaiva on 26 October 2014
morenoingrato said:
How long until we know?


40 minutes.

The votes are at 81,09% already. However they do not publish any results till it is all done.



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Skidmore on 26 October 2014
BraveNewWorld said:
ktay95 said:
WagnerPaiva said:
 

Haha this is how I feel. But here in Australia we use paper ballots so I just draw funny faces on it =P

(We are forced to vote or we are fined)


That's bullshit.

1. Your civil rights are being infringed upon.

2. It forces even more uneducated, willfully ignorant, government-handout-seeking voters into voting for people they no nothing about.

In Brazil you can vote null, and let the others decide for you. So you are not forced to know someone you don't know anyhting about.

And analphabets have optional voting.



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WagnerPaiva on 26 October 2014
Skidmore said:
BraveNewWorld said:
ktay95 said:
WagnerPaiva said:
 

Haha this is how I feel. But here in Australia we use paper ballots so I just draw funny faces on it =P

(We are forced to vote or we are fined)


That's bullshit.

1. Your civil rights are being infringed upon.

2. It forces even more uneducated, willfully ignorant, government-handout-seeking voters into voting for people they no nothing about.

In Brazil you can vote null, and let the others decide for you. So you are not forced to know someone you don't know anyhting about.

And analphabets have optional voting.


Also elders too. They only vote if they want to. 65 years and up, I think.



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Munchies on 26 October 2014

85,41%. My heart can't take this.



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WagnerPaiva on 26 October 2014
mZuzek said:
morenoingrato said:
How long until we know?

I think about 1 hour.


30 minutes now. Votes accounted for are at 85,16%.

Again, they do not let us know who is winning till eight o´clock.



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WagnerPaiva on 26 October 2014
Munchies said:
85,41%. My heart can't take this.


Me too, I am getting sick to my stomach from the anxiety.



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Goatseye on 26 October 2014
BraveNewWorld said:
 


That's bullshit.

1. Your civil rights are being infringed upon.

2. It forces even more uneducated, willfully ignorant, government-handout-seeking voters into voting for people they no nothing about.

1- Their reality is way different than US's read the reasons for mandatory vote in previous pages.

2- Worse than uneducated, willfully ignorant vote for people that they know nothing about, is the inability to directly elect who they really want. Glass house.

Government-hand out-seeking voters are less of a problem than government-handout-seeking companies. Corruption on higher level in Brasil is higher than US, I think.



zehh25 on 26 October 2014
Munchies said:
WagnerPaiva said:
Munchies said:
A antecipação está me matando. Não sei o que eu faço se a Dilma vencer. Sinto que se isso acontecer, virá um governo muito perigoso pelos próximos quatro anos.


Yes, I feel the same. 16 years is way too long.


Not only that, but her government's been far more destructive than Lula's. At least, his first mandate was kind of okay, but it all went downhill with Guido Mantega.

I think she is doing better than Lula, in my opinion the economic growth decrease is kind of a consequence of the social politics we had over the last years, especially some that appeard during Lula's government.

Anyway, I think that doesn't matter who win, there will be no major changes because the social politics are still necessary to reduce the poverty.

I voted for Dilma, because I've seen a huge improvement in the city I live (Uberaba, MG) thanks to "Minha Casa, Minha Vida" and to the investments in our federal university. I study Electric Engeneering in a university that didn't even exist 5 years ago (it was limited to medicine only, so it wasn't a university technically speaking) in a new campus that is with a lot of other buildings under construction. Also, it seems that Nordeste and Norte improved a lot in many ways, at least acording to people I know that live there.