Brazil uses an obsolete, inauditable, and closed-source voting machine.<p>Tomorrow we vote for president, governor, and Congress members, and the fate of our 200M people democracy depends <i>exclusively</i> on the security of this machine (it produces no independent physical evidence of the votes).<p>We know for a fact, though, from respected researcher and cryptographer Diego F. Aranha, that it is insecure[1].<p>(For the technically-inclined, let's just say that the ballot's secrecy is guarded by srand(time(null)). You can imagine the rest.)<p>It's been like this for 18 years. This year, we're doing something about it.<p>We've launched a campaign to raise awareness about the very real threat of large-scale, undetectable fraud, and it has so far been a huge success.<p>We've raised over twice the amount we asked for in our crowdfunding campaign[2].<p>We were featured in every major news outlet in the country[3].<p>We've built and deployed a mobile app for citizen inspection of poll tapes, and reached an install base that is estimated to cover a sample of over 20% of all electoral zones in the country, positively impacting the electoral transparency of over 40 million people.[4]<p>But it is not enough. The Brazilian government has had enough time and resources in its hands to convince the whole country that not only are the machines secure, but that they are also the envy of the world.<p>We've made an impact. In the past weeks, they've adapted their rhetoric from "unpenetrable" to "nothing is 100% secure"[5], but we still have a long way to go.<p>We're now faced with the very real possibility that they'll flex their PR muscles once again, shove this all under the rug, and not change a thing after elections are over and people have moved on.<p>You can make sure that doesn't happen.<p>International pressure and public shaming have done a great deal for citizens all over the world, proving the Internet's power to unite humans across borders for the good of one another.<p>You can do that for 200M Brazilians today. Please, read the article in the link above and, if you feel it's important, share it and upvote it.<p>If we can't be heard from the inside, let's be heard from the outside. You can be our voice.<p>Thank you so much!<p>--
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[1]: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dfaranha/pubs/aranha-karam-miranda-scarel-12-book" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/dfaranha/pubs/aranha-karam-mir...</a>
[2]: <a href="http://catarse.me/VoceFiscal" rel="nofollow">http://catarse.me/VoceFiscal</a>
[3]: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=pt-BR&gl=br&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=%22voc%C3%AA+fiscal%22&oq=%22voc%C3%AA+fiscal%22&gs_l=news-cc.3.0.43j43i53.924.2190.0.3729.14.2.0.12.0.1.162.191.1j1.2.0...0.0...1ac.1j4.dnBNYZwey5U" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?hl=pt-BR&gl=br&tbm=nws&authuse...</a>
[4]: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vocefiscal" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vocefiscal</a>
[5]: <a href="http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2014/noticias/2014/08/29/tse-sugere-que-urna-eletronica-esta-sujeita-a-fraudes.htm" rel="nofollow">http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2014/noticias/2014/08/29/tse-suge...</a>