We human rights defenders must always keep our fighting for justice, democracy and human rights. The right to reparation when systematic violations of human rights is hapenning is essential part of the justice demanded by the world. Since the creation of this blog in 2010, its counter of visualizations doesn't work and the same is happening with my YouTube channel since its creation in 2020. For no reason, I'm being harmed in so many ways and for so long. Why can I not have a YouTube channel and blog with their counter of visualizations working like everyone else? If you want to know my channel and see a small sample of the huge worldwide movement for justice, democracy and political rights, watch my videos, here is the link https://www.youtube.com/@lucianofietto4773/videos. This post is a summary of the report written after research by professors at the Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil and Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada. The title of the report is above and was published at https://oro.open.ac.uk/12543/1/12543.pdf
Literature has shown that countries with strong democratic traditions are not yet using eletronic voting systems, given citizens and policy makers' concern about the security of such systems. To date, commercially available technology requires an infrastructure that poses complex technical challenges for reliability and security. E-voting technology does not yet provide a completely "secure e-transaction environment". Some authors claim that e-voting will never be error-free and that it is nice in theory, but that in practice, the risks are too large. Given the lack of security of e-voting systems, what are the risks of e-voting to democracy when the systems are introduced? Can less mature democracies such as those in Latin America, be reinforced with the adoption of e-voting systems? The contradictions are apparent: most countries in the developed world have held off adopting e-voting systems given their concerns about security and their knowledge of the implications of insecure systems for democracy. The controversis over e-voting are under way and e-voting technologies failures have been documented. Scientists started to worry about computer voting systems and numerous reports have found them vulnerable to "error" and tampering. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the introduction of e-voting in Brazil is highly risky to democracy due to the lack of emphasis on security and the lack of a socially-informed and socially driven approach to technological innovation. Brazil was the first country in the world to conduct its biggest election using e-voting tech. The e-voting technology deployed in Brazil is a direct recording eletronic voting system;--- it has been judged by Brazilian experts as being more vulnerable to tampering than any another voting system. For some eletronic voting experts, the Electoral Justice has opened the doors for new and sophisticated fraud, more serious than the traditional kind. Many reports in the U.S., articulate the risks of this technology, corroborating with what Brazilian academics and scientists say. In the U.S. the controversies over e-voting are not stifled, e-voting tech failures have been registered all over. A recent study carried out by the OECD confirms that, if governments do not learn how to manage the risks of information technology, the eletronic dreams will become global nightmares. In developed countries, resistance to e-voting has been consistent. Without a market for e-voting systems in the developed world, corporate actors have turned to developing countries. Just as pharmaceutical companies whose medicine do not pass the FDA's criteria push their market nets in the south hemisphere. While Diebold, the eletronic voting machine maker, is so questioned in the U.S., in Brazil it has the largest contract in its history by selling e-voting machines to the Brazilian government. If both e-voting and e-democracy are conceived and adopted based on popular demand, then the efficiency of traditional democratic electoral processes may be enhanced. However, if e-voting technology is introduced as a supply-driven operation, it is imperative to identify and assess the risks to democracy. It seems that the e-voting system in Brazil has been risky business. Democracy is at stake. Health and social welfare are on the line, subject to cutbacks despite growing needs. Technological hubris and market imperatives have driven the evolution of the digital society, with important democratic implications. Appropriate technological processes can reverse this trend in a way that ensures that we are not travelling along the path of least resistance.
