1. Brazil will use biometrics in the eletronic voting system
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...ning the codes of programming of the ballot boxes to entities as the Bar Association of Brazil (OAB) and the political parties.  From 180 days of each election, the TSE opens all the line...

2. On the Brazilian eletronic voting system
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...etronic 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 techn...

3. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...ity in the election of 9-10 April 2006, was the strengthening of the belief among its citizens that Italy's political class was more remote than ever. La Caste (as Sergio Rizzo & Gianantonio St...

4. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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... of the presidential administration, or informally through close personal connections - that determines the political influence of an individual bureaucrat. The presidential networks (again both fo...

5. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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For more than six years, the administration of President Vladimir Putin  as deepened and darkened a political, economic, and moral crisis in my home nation of Russia. I would like to talk about t

6. Political Power in Africa
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...r leader be permitted to run for a third term, the Senate’s vote marked a watershed in Nigeria’s political history. As important as the outcome was the way in which the conflict was resolv...

7. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...Purchasing-Power Parity or PPP standard for the year 1995) stood no worse than Partly Free in the ratings of political rights and civil liberties published annually by Freedom House (FH). As China&r...

8. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...in April 2007, Condoleezza Rice had accused Chávez of "destroying his own country, economically, politically." The litany of power-concentration since the December 2006 elections has ...