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The Brazilian Election Supreme Court Migrates 430 Thousand Voting Machines to GNU/Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 7, 2008

[ Thanks to André Felipe
Machado for this link. ]

“The Brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th
2008, that the 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU/Linux
electronic voting machines with software digital
authentication.

“The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the Brazilian Election Supreme
Court), officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the Brazilian
2008 elections will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines
migrated from VirtuOS and Windows CE to GNU/Linux and open source
softwares for security and auditing defined by proper law…”


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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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