EnricoPallazzo said:
For a very long time I was against the system in Brazil as everything can be hacked. And after I saw how Nato was able to cause damage to Iran nuclear system that was totally disconnected from the internet I just thought I could never trust elections in Brazil again. Then I listened to a podcast with a guy that works with the system in Brazil and started to explain all the tricks that happened in the past with paper voting and were so common, some really crazy stories on how the votes could be manipulated from the voting point up to the tabulation. So today I became a supporter of the electronic system. |
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I worked for 16 months as an intern on our electoral court. And I'm major in technology. There they explained to us how the electronic machines works and why is not factible to hack them. It's an embedded system, it's like saying you can hack an electronic calculator from distance.
The machines votes also do not cross the internet except in few smaller regions in the rural island-like areas and villages of the North, those cities does not have an access to the mainland by land, only by river. Otherwise all votes are transported into a intranet managed by the state itself, it has no point to internet connection except on the supreme electoral court (I call it TSE) in the Capitol. This is the only server that in practice can be invaded or hacked
Even if TSE were hacked, there is a hundred other regional and local courts called TRE. Each TRE counts it's own votes, only votes for president are aggregated and counted on TSE, and those TRE system cannot be hacked as they don't have worldwide web access.
TSE mission is just take a look on TRE votes and make them public available. If anything on TSE were be hacked (which never happened by the way), it's just a matter of destroying TSE votes and asking TRE to send their numbers again.
I'm also volunteer since I was 16 to work on my session in election days and as I worked I saw how the process in handled
And the process is crazy secure. The only way to corrupt it is with a mutual agreement between the citizens representatives, the electoral courts workers, and the parties involved (in Brazil we have over 50 parties competing against each other), all them in the electoral zone, which can happen but it's very unlikely








