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Comment by frozenlettuce

That's a sensitive topic, as Bolsonaro has questioning the voting machine security.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Brazil

Even Tom Scott's video about electronic voting shows in Brazil with a warning saying that "electronic voting is safe" (the same type of warning that shows up for conspiracy theories).

We had no problems with those machines since 1996. My take is that he does that to mobilize his support base.

One curious thing is that the centralized voting counting is done with an Oracle system. Some politicians questioned the contracts value, and why AWS or Google cloud weren't considered - authorities argued that only Oracle supported Oracle's cloud : )

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