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Thursday, December 15th, 2022

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    2:47a
    Computerized voting

    Lula has sued Bolsonaro for various reasons, one of which is accusing the country's computerized voting system of being vulnerable.

    Bolsonaro has done much to undermine democracy and elections in Brazil, and morally deserves punishment. However, the general claim that Brazil's computerized voting system makes Brazil's elections vulnerable is valid. That is because the machines record only totals, and do not keep individual paper ballots that voters marked by hand. Such systems are vulnerable to someone, somehow.

    Brazilian experts campaigned against this system when it was adopted, demanding a system that enabled the results to be audited, but they lost the battle.

    There is no evidence that anything wrong happened in the voting machines in this election, but Brazil should change to an audit-able voting system for the sake of the future.

    4:47a
    Urgent: Julian Assange, now

    *Biden faces growing pressure to drop charges against Julian Assange.* Pressure is coming from Australia and Brazil, as well as American defenders of freedom of the press.

    So phone the White House and say, drop the charges against Assange — reporting on leaked dirty secrets must not be a crime. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

    If you phone, please spread the word!

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