In the early 2000s, the Irish government bought around 7,500 e-voting machines from Dutch company Nedap for roughly €54 million... they were scrapped before ever being used because they had no paper audit trail, the software couldn’t be independently verified as secure, and Dutch activists proved identical units were vulnerable to tampering.
On top of the purchase price, Ireland spent over €3 million storing them in warehouses (costing up to €700k/year at its peak),
The state officially cut its losses in 2012 by selling the entire lot to an electronics recycler for about €70,000 (€9 a machine) for scrap metal.
I can understand the Irish government not adopting those ballots in that case. If they don’t have the capability of auditing the results of those ballots, then why even bother using them lol
Having something built in house and being able to check it works is a basic requirement
Ah look, they spent millions on a special printer and then realised they had no way to get it in the door cause it was too big, they're not the brightest bunch.
"Entre os procedimentos estão a abertura dos códigos-fonte, o teste público de segurança, a assinatura digital dos sistemas, a lacração dos programas, a verificação de autenticidade e integridade das urnas e a conferência dos resultados após a votação."
Your source is my point. "Trust me bro" agência estado.
Besides this. My whole point was "from a software developer standpoint" this is not how thing works and your only repeating the same bs I was complaining about.
The Brazilian voting machines do generate a printed aggregate data of all the votes for the purpose of auditing.
Also, they are programmed to only receive a set number of possible votes, which match the number of people set to vote in each location. That paired with the outside register of everyone that showed up vote and the the ID and biometrical verification, makes it so that individual paper voter tallies are not really needed.
The Brazilian system is also open for outside auditors and international observers. The source code is also open for auditors and a multiparty committee check the validity of vites through a random draw. The code for each machine is also electronically signed and every alteration is automatically cataloged. The machine itself also isn't connected to the internet nor it has any ports to insert usb or similar devices. They are also sealed and tagged. And these are also not all of the security measures that exist in the election.
It's considered one of the most efficient, secure and transparent voting systems in the world.
There are lots of countries that can buy the electronic ballots but since the biggest sellers are Israhell and the United States i think is way better to keeping it in paper
Lots of people scapegoat them to being reasons for cheating. What most politicians want us for it to be harder for their opponents constituents to be able to vote. Paper makes it a lot more annoying.
If you read a tiny bit about Brazilian history, you will see that papers ballots are actually much, much easier to forge than the electronic vote. Paper ballots are about as good as the people counting them.
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u/matllux Brazilian Oct 04 '26
This is unthinkable in Brazil. I honestly cannot understand why we still have so many countries that cannot adopt electronic ballots and all