mabovo
April 5th, 2008, 05:26 PM
Friday, April 04, 2008, 17h42
The use of the Linux operating system in the polls electronic provide more transparency to the process and, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), a saving of about $ 4 million in municipal elections this year.
As a free software, the government will not spend intellectual property and copyright, which increased the value of the electronic ballot box, with other operating systems installed in approximately one hundred US dollars - today, the value of each urn is of 850 dollars. "It is an open system, with zero cost for the Electoral Justice," explained the director general of the TSE, Athaide Fontoura Son. On this Friday, 4 / 4, were presented the specification and development of computerized programs to be used in municipal elections this year.
Only this year were acquired 50 thousand electronic ballot box. Other 430 thousand, used in the last five elections, will also be available, all with the Linux system. According Fontoura, the estimate is that the next ten years are saved up to $ 15 million with the use of the new software.
Besides reducing expenses, the director general of the TSE informed that the change makes it easier to audit the system more transparent in the use and improvement of programs developed by the technical team of the court. For the first time, technicians nominated by political parties, public prosecutors and the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) can monitor all stages of development of computer programs used in the elections.
"The prosecutor, the political parties and have OAB conditions, from 180 days before the elections, to propose changes in the logic of the system, which makes the process more transparent and strengthen democracy," said Fontoura. Monitoring and "tests of vulnerability" can be made in the Presentation Room of the TSE, on Saturday, 5 / 4, until the systems are sealed, which is planned for the beginning of September.
Also new this year will be the use of biometric polls in the cities of Fatima South, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Sao Joao Batista, in Santa Catarina, and Colorado d'Oeste in Rondonia. Nelas the voter is identified by fingerprint and photograph of the ten fingers. With the biometric registration, the TSE wants to exclude the possibility of one person by another vote, which still exists today. The expectation is that in ten years all states of the country have voted with biometric readers.
The use of the Linux operating system in the polls electronic provide more transparency to the process and, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), a saving of about $ 4 million in municipal elections this year.
As a free software, the government will not spend intellectual property and copyright, which increased the value of the electronic ballot box, with other operating systems installed in approximately one hundred US dollars - today, the value of each urn is of 850 dollars. "It is an open system, with zero cost for the Electoral Justice," explained the director general of the TSE, Athaide Fontoura Son. On this Friday, 4 / 4, were presented the specification and development of computerized programs to be used in municipal elections this year.
Only this year were acquired 50 thousand electronic ballot box. Other 430 thousand, used in the last five elections, will also be available, all with the Linux system. According Fontoura, the estimate is that the next ten years are saved up to $ 15 million with the use of the new software.
Besides reducing expenses, the director general of the TSE informed that the change makes it easier to audit the system more transparent in the use and improvement of programs developed by the technical team of the court. For the first time, technicians nominated by political parties, public prosecutors and the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) can monitor all stages of development of computer programs used in the elections.
"The prosecutor, the political parties and have OAB conditions, from 180 days before the elections, to propose changes in the logic of the system, which makes the process more transparent and strengthen democracy," said Fontoura. Monitoring and "tests of vulnerability" can be made in the Presentation Room of the TSE, on Saturday, 5 / 4, until the systems are sealed, which is planned for the beginning of September.
Also new this year will be the use of biometric polls in the cities of Fatima South, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Sao Joao Batista, in Santa Catarina, and Colorado d'Oeste in Rondonia. Nelas the voter is identified by fingerprint and photograph of the ten fingers. With the biometric registration, the TSE wants to exclude the possibility of one person by another vote, which still exists today. The expectation is that in ten years all states of the country have voted with biometric readers.