Electronic voting in Brazil

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Electronic voting in Brazil was first used in 1996; since the year 2000, Brazil holds all its elections with the use of electronic voting machines, which are not connected to the Internet, but allow for national electronic voting. The system was first deployed in 1996, in pilot use in dozens of municipalities in the state of Santa Catarina, and was progressively expanded nationwide. The system is administered by the country's Electoral Justice (Justiça Eleitoral), headed by the Superior Electoral Court (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) and the Regional Electoral Courts (Tribunais Regionais Eleitorais, TREs), which are responsible for voter registration, biometric identification, vote collection, result tabulation, transmission and consolidation of results, and formal certification of the outcome. The direct-recording electronic voting machines (urna eletrônica) used at polling places emphasize operational simplicity for voters — often compared to the usability of a public phone booth...

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