ELETRONIC VOTING: Arguments Against

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ELETRONIC VOTING

Arguments Against

Voting has progressed in technology from traditional days when voters dropped votes marked on a shell, shard of pottery, or card into a box to the current days where voting is controlled by electronics and the processes leading to the vote remain unseen to the human eye. Despite the change in method of voting, the basic facets of good voting tactics remain the same: ensuring one vote per voter, maintaining voter anonymity, accuracy of vote, security of the system, and prevention of fraud.

This is where the problem lies in many arguments against electronic voting opponents do not feel that the voting basics can be maintained in an electronic voting system. The arguments have been divided into 3 general categories of complaints: issues with the technology, vast possibilities of fraud, and protection of voters and their votes.

As Bruce Schneier describes it, technology adds more steps to the process and thus increases the possibility of error with each additional step, all of which are largely unseen by the voter. Put Murphys Law of whatever can go wrong, will go wrong into play, and one can surmise that technology will most likely falter. Not only does the technology create more errors in the electronic workings, but the voters can also commit mistakes due to confusion with the user interface. The terminology is confusing, different machines produce different interfaces, and even the audio guides to help the disabled may prove more confusing than helpful.

With the advent of electronic machine voting also comes the higher possibilities of fraudulent machines and practices. First of all, the technology is black box software, meaning that the public is not allowed access into the software that controls the voting machines. Although companies protect their software to protect against fraud (and to beat back competition), this also leaves the public with no idea of how the voting software works. It would be simple for the company to manipulate the software to produce fraudulent results. Also, the vendors who market the machines are in competition with each other, and there is no guarantee that they are producing the machines in the best interest of the voters and the accuracy of the ballots.

Lastly, vote accuracy is also an issue, because voters have no way of confirming there vote, and there is also no way of conducting a recount with direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting. With DRE, there is no paper trail, no verification, and thus no scrutiny of the processes. Voter anonymity is also a problem. Voters have to provide much of their personal information to the systems for voter verification, and with that comes the problem of keeping voter information safe and keeping voters anonymous.

The cons against electronic voting laid out here are only some of the arguments against electronic voting. However, they are a good reflection of the ethical and technical concerns related to the issue of electronic voting.

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AP |  By JENNY BARCHFIELD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Posted: 04/12/2015 4:58 pm
EDT Updated: 04/12/2015 5:59 pm EDT
BRAZIL
o   
 
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)
— Anti-government demonstrators began streaming into the streets of cities
throughout Brazil on Sunday to demand the impeachment of President Dilma
Rousseff.

It was the second
such day of protests in less than a month and comes as polls show Rousseff
entering the fourth month of her second term in office with historically low
approval ratings amid a massive corruption scandal at the state-run oil
company, Petrobras, as well as a spluttering economy, a rapidly depreciating
currency and political infighting.
Helicopter
television images showed demonstrators, many of them dressed in the yellow and
green colors of the Brazilian flag and brandishing placards reading "Dilma
Out," congregating in the capital, Brasilia, in the northeastern cities of
Salvador and Belem and in Belo Horizonte in central Brazil.
brazil

Demonstrators
protest against the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at
Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 12, 2015. (Photo: YASUYOSHI
CHIBA/AFP/Getty Image
s)
In Rio de Janeiro,
a protest along the golden sands of Copacabana drew several hundred people, a
far cry from the several thousand-strong turnout here last month.
Demonstrations were
expected later in Brazil's economic capital, Sao Paulo, where more than 200,000
people turned out for the last round of protests. The March 15 rally was among
the biggest in Sao Paulo since demonstrations in 1984 demanding the end of the
military dictatorship.
The protest
movement has been organized, mostly via social media, by a motley assortment of
groups. Most call for Rousseff's impeachment, but they are joined by others
with demands ranging from a military coup to looser gun control laws. The
groups say demonstrations were expected in as many as 400 towns and cities
across this continent-sized natio
n.
brazil

Demonstrators
take part in a protest against the government of president Dilma Rousseff in
Porto Alegre, Brazil on 12 April, 2015. (Photo credit: JEFFERSON
BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images)
The size of
Sunday's turnout could determine the future of the campaign to impeach
Rousseff, whose Workers' Party is embroiled in a massive corruption scandal at
the state-run oil giant Petrobras. Many analysts say the movement could crumble
if organizers fail to deliver crowds as big as last month's.
Carlos Lopes, a
political risk analyst at Brasilia office of the Insituto Analise consultancy,
said "Sunday's demonstration faces a big problem, which is one of
comparison."
"If it doesn't
(match the size of the March 15 protests), people will be less inclined take
part in future demonstrations and the movement toward large-scale rallies will
begin to fizzle out," he said in a telephone interview.
One Brazilian
president, Fernando Collor de Mello, who was accused of corruption by his own
brother, has been impeached since Brazil's return to democracy in 1985, but
many legal experts have said that Rousseff could only be impeached if evidence
emerges directly linking her to crimes committed during her second term, which
began in January.
Still, a survey
released Saturday by the Folha de S.Paulo daily found that 63 percent of
Brazilians surveyed supported impeachment proceedings against Rousseff, while
33 percent opposed them. The same poll, by the respected Datafolha polling
agency, showed Rousseff's approval ratings holding steady, with 13 percent of
respondents giving her a great or good rating while 60 percent of respondents
evaluated her performance as bad or terrible. The survey of 2,834 people in 171
municipalities was conducted on Thursday and Friday. It had a margin of error
of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Much of the ire of
protesters on Sunday focused on the Petrobras scandal. Prosecutors say at least
$800 million was paid in bribes and other funds by the nation's biggest
construction and engineering firms in exchange for inflated Petrobras
contracts.
brazil

A
dummy of former Brazilian President (2003-2011) Luiz Inacio Da Silva is punched
by a demonstrator as other rally along Paulista Avenue against the government
of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo,
Brazil on April 12, 2015. (Photo credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Several top executives
and former lawmakers have been detained and the attorney general is
investigating dozens of other congressmen and officials for alleged connections
to the scheme, which apparently began in 1997, before Rousseff's party took
power in 2003.
Rousseff, a former
chairwoman of Petrobras' board, has not been implicated and so far is not being
investigated, though two of her former chiefs of staff are caught up in the
inquiry.
In 2013, more than
a million people took to the streets in a single day to protest against the
high cost of living, poor public schools and hospitals and lavish government
spending on sporting events like last year's World Cup soccer tournament and
the 2016 Olympic games in Rio.
While the 2013
demonstrations were marred by widespread police violence against protesters,
this year's demonstrations have been largely peaceful.

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Protesters in
Brazil push to impeach President Dilma Rousseff



Updated
0410 GMT (1110 HKT) April 13, 2015

Brazilians protest, demand President's impeachement

Brazilians protest, demand
President's impeachement
 02:08
Story highlights

·        
 Police say 275,000
demonstrators marched in Sao Paulo
·        
Many want President Dilma Rousseff to
be impeached
·        
A corruption scandal has implicated
politicians in her party
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN)Throngs of protesters packed the streets of major
Brazilian cities on Sunday, pushing for the impeachment of President Dilma
Rousseff.
Fueled by mounting anger over a
corruption scandal that has implicated politicians in Rousseff's party,
demonstrators chanted "Out with Dilma" and "Time for
change."
Police estimated that 275,000
demonstrators marched in Sao Paulo. A sea of protesters dressed in
the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag used decades-old rallying cries to
fire up their ranks, singing rock songs that date back to protests of the
country's one-time military dictatorship.
It's the second day of nationwide
anti-government demonstrations in less than a month. And protesters vowed that
it wouldn't be the last.
Brazil is heading into a recession again this year, inflation is up and the currency is at a 12-year low.
Brazil
protesters to Rousseff: Get out
 13 photos
Brazil
is heading into a recession again this year, inflation is up and the currency
is at a 12-year low.
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AP |  By JENNY BARCHFIELD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Posted: 04/12/2015 4:58 pm EDT Updated: 04/12/2015 5:59 pm EDT
o     

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anti-government demonstrators began streaming into the streets of cities throughout Brazil on Sunday to demand the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

It was the second such day of protests in less than a month and comes as polls show Rousseff entering the fourth month of her second term in office with historically low approval ratings amid a massive corruption scandal at the state-run oil company, Petrobras, as well as a spluttering economy, a rapidly depreciating currency and political infighting.
Helicopter television images showed demonstrators, many of them dressed in the yellow and green colors of the Brazilian flag and brandishing placards reading "Dilma Out," congregating in the capital, Brasilia, in the northeastern cities of Salvador and Belem and in Belo Horizonte in central Brazil.

Demonstrators protest against the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 12, 2015. (Photo: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
In Rio de Janeiro, a protest along the golden sands of Copacabana drew several hundred people, a far cry from the several thousand-strong turnout here last month.
Demonstrations were expected later in Brazil's economic capital, Sao Paulo, where more than 200,000 people turned out for the last round of protests. The March 15 rally was among the biggest in Sao Paulo since demonstrations in 1984 demanding the end of the military dictatorship.
The protest movement has been organized, mostly via social media, by a motley assortment of groups. Most call for Rousseff's impeachment, but they are joined by others with demands ranging from a military coup to looser gun control laws. The groups say demonstrations were expected in as many as 400 towns and cities across this continent-sized nation.


Demonstrators take part in a protest against the government of president Dilma Rousseff in Porto Alegre, Brazil on 12 April, 2015. (Photo credit: JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images)
The size of Sunday's turnout could determine the future of the campaign to impeach Rousseff, whose Workers' Party is embroiled in a massive corruption scandal at the state-run oil giant Petrobras. Many analysts say the movement could crumble if organizers fail to deliver crowds as big as last month's.
Carlos Lopes, a political risk analyst at Brasilia office of the Insituto Analise consultancy, said "Sunday's demonstration faces a big problem, which is one of comparison."
"If it doesn't (match the size of the March 15 protests), people will be less inclined take part in future demonstrations and the movement toward large-scale rallies will begin to fizzle out," he said in a telephone interview.
One Brazilian president, Fernando Collor de Mello, who was accused of corruption by his own brother, has been impeached since Brazil's return to democracy in 1985, but many legal experts have said that Rousseff could only be impeached if evidence emerges directly linking her to crimes committed during her second term, which began in January.
Still, a survey released Saturday by the Folha de S.Paulo daily found that 63 percent of Brazilians surveyed supported impeachment proceedings against Rousseff, while 33 percent opposed them. The same poll, by the respected Datafolha polling agency, showed Rousseff's approval ratings holding steady, with 13 percent of respondents giving her a great or good rating while 60 percent of respondents evaluated her performance as bad or terrible. The survey of 2,834 people in 171 municipalities was conducted on Thursday and Friday. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Much of the ire of protesters on Sunday focused on the Petrobras scandal. Prosecutors say at least $800 million was paid in bribes and other funds by the nation's biggest construction and engineering firms in exchange for inflated Petrobras contracts.

A dummy of former Brazilian President (2003-2011) Luiz Inacio Da Silva is punched by a demonstrator as other rally along Paulista Avenue against the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil on April 12, 2015. (Photo credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Several top executives and former lawmakers have been detained and the attorney general is investigating dozens of other congressmen and officials for alleged connections to the scheme, which apparently began in 1997, before Rousseff's party took power in 2003.
Rousseff, a former chairwoman of Petrobras' board, has not been implicated and so far is not being investigated, though two of her former chiefs of staff are caught up in the inquiry.
In 2013, more than a million people took to the streets in a single day to protest against the high cost of living, poor public schools and hospitals and lavish government spending on sporting events like last year's World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic games in Rio.
While the 2013 demonstrations were marred by widespread police violence against protesters, this year's demonstrations have been largely peaceful.
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Protesters in Brazil push to impeach President Dilma Rousseff
From Shasta Darlington, CNN





Updated 0410 GMT (1110 HKT) April 13, 2015



Brazilians protest, demand President's impeachement 02:08
Story highlights
·          Police say 275,000 demonstrators marched in Sao Paulo
·         Many want President Dilma Rousseff to be impeached
·         A corruption scandal has implicated politicians in her party
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN)Throngs of protesters packed the streets of major Brazilian cities on Sunday, pushing for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
Fueled by mounting anger over a corruption scandal that has implicated politicians in Rousseff's party, demonstrators chanted "Out with Dilma" and "Time for change."
Police estimated that 275,000 demonstrators marched in Sao Paulo. A sea of protesters dressed in the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag used decades-old rallying cries to fire up their ranks, singing rock songs that date back to protests of the country's one-time military dictatorship.
It's the second day of nationwide anti-government demonstrations in less than a month. And protesters vowed that it wouldn't be the last.

Brazil protesters to Rousseff: Get out 13 photos
Brazil is heading into a recession again this year, inflation is up and the currency is at a 12-year low.
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and social disaster promoted by Rousseff’s government.



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Brazilian Social Democracy
Party (PSDB)
’s official statement
 on popular demonstrations given notice
on March 15 throughout
 Brazil
March
11, 2015
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 The Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB) sympathizes with the
Brazilian indignation of protests outside the glaring moral degradation and the
economic and social disaster promoted by Rousseff’s government.
The PSDB
defends the free expression of opinion and the right of expression of citizens
and therefore supports the peaceful and democratic acts called for the next day
March 15 across the country.
More than a
constitutional guarantee, freedom of thought and criticism is essential
foundation for strengthening democratic life and the social roots of republican
values.
The PSDB
repudiates the attitude of those who, on behalf of their party interests, and
misrepresent curtail the right to free expression, and try to convince the
population that the criticism of the rulers to be confused with attacks against
the institutional order and the rule of law.
In fact,
unlike some try to make believe, the protests taking place in social networks
and on the streets do not defend the presidential election’s third round
, but the rigorous investigation of responsibility for the endemic
corruption ingrained in the body of the nation state, and demands the
abandonment of public commitments with the population. These are legitimate
expressions of a country that lives in full democratic state in terms
 of its positioning on a great number and serious crises.
We believe
that public participation improves the institutions and raises public
governance standards. Therefore, the PSDB, through its members, supporters and
several of its leaders participate, Brazilian next to all regions of the
country, this nonpartisan movement that arises from more legitimate sense of
outrage of the Brazilian society.
The PSDB
reiterates its commitment to all who want a stronger country, righteous, fair,
supportive and democratic.
Senator Aécio
Neves
National
President of the PSDB
Senator
Cassio Cunha Lima
Leader of the
PSDB in the Senate
Mr Carlos
Sampaio
PSDB leader in the House

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PORTUGUESE VERSION


Nota oficial
do PSDB sobre as manifestações populares convocadas para o dia 15 de março
11
de março de 2015
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reuniao executiva psdb foto george gianniO Partido da Social
Democracia Brasileira (
PSDB) se solidariza com as manifestações de indignação dos brasileiros
diante da flagrante degradação moral e do desastre econômico-social promovidos
pelo governo Dilma Rousseff.
O PSDB defende a livre manifestação de opinião e o direito à expressão
dos cidadãos e, portanto, apoia os atos pacíficos e democráticos convocados para
o próximo dia 15 de março em todo o país.
Mais do que uma garantia constitucional, a liberdade de pensamento e de
crítica é fundamento essencial para o fortalecimento da vida democrática e o
enraizamento social dos valores republicanos.
O PSDB repudia a atitude daqueles que, em nome de seus interesses
partidários, cerceiam e deturpam o direito à livre manifestação, e tentam
convencer a população de que a crítica aos governantes se confunde
com atentados contra a ordem institucional e o Estado de Direito.
Na verdade, ao contrário de que alguns tentam fazer crer, os
protestos que ocorrem nas redes sociais e nas ruas não defendem um
terceiro turno, mas a rigorosa apuração de responsabilidades sobre a corrupção
endêmica incrustrada no corpo do estado nacional, e cobra o abandono dos
compromissos assumidos publicamente com a população. São manifestações
legítimas de um país que vive em plena democracia e se posiciona perante
múltiplas e graves crises.
Acreditamos que a participação popular melhora as instituições e eleva
os padrões de governança pública. Por isso, o PSDB, através de seus
militantes, simpatizantes e várias de suas lideranças participará, ao lado
de brasileiros de todas as regiões do país, desse movimento apartidário que
surge do mais legítimo sentimento de indignação da sociedade brasileira.
O PSDB reitera seu compromisso com todos os que desejam um país mais
forte, íntegro, justo, solidário e democrático.
Senador Aécio Neves

Presidente Nacional do PSDB
Senador Cássio Cunha Lima

Líder do PSDB no Senado Federal


Deputado Carlos Sampaio

Líder do PSDB na Câmara dos Deputados