During many years, then Brazilian goverment fought to develop an eletronic voting system to counter the giantesc electoral problems of the past, such as frauds, pressures of local leaders, etc.

The fact is, after more than a decade of developments, the eletronic voting system is a reality and it cooperated to change - a little bit - the reality of the Brazilian political structure.

The system itself is presented as a very safe combination od technologies, but not exactly expensive. It's a terminal with an autonomous operating system wich uses a very strong encryption key, which renders the system practically inviolable. Surelly one should argue that mantaining such material over ther years - and upgrading it constantly - would cost a lot of money for an event that occurs only once in a couple of years... But hey, if the Brazilians made that, why other more developed countries can't?

The answer: well, with a system that reduces the chances of error to zero, that can give us the results in the same day AND can't be recounted due an court order... Well, that really doesn't seem an advantage... Can you imagine America today without a certain "little manipulation" from the recent past? Well, I can.