lucky you. In Brazil we use vote machines made by diebold, which are as weak in security as a carton box. And no independent entity can ressearch its failures.
2015-10-09 8:24 GMT-03:00 Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare) < a13st...@student.his.se>: > tor 2015-10-08 klockan 16:48 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis: > > On 10/08/2015 01:44 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: > > > Unfortunately SVT Öppet Arkiv is not available to anyone outside > > > Sweden, which is a pity. A great source. > > > > > > This interest for computers and election vigils come from the fact > > > that I had a email conversation with a person that was involved > > > when > > > DEC won the contract to for the election in 1976 in Sweden for SVT. > > > He was involved in adapting the VT30 system for TV use. Genlock and > > > stuff. > > > > > > I found three clips in Öppet Arkiv which I trimmed down heavily. > > > These shows tend to be quite long anyhow. I hope SVT is not getting > > > mad now. > > > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoFM3hfbic > > > > Interesting. Anent that, here's a nice article about the use of > > computers in a US Presidential election in 1952: > > > > http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2012/10/31/163951263/th > > e-night-a-computer-predicted-the-next-president > > > > I wonder if there aren't still some congressional districts where > > votes > > are counted by hand in the US. > > > > --Chuck > > > > All the votes is still counted by hand. > Both att election evening (by election workers) and afterwards > (multiple times) in the months after election. > > The "Valvaka" is the election day TV-program, the computers is included > because people wants an early impression of who will be statsminister > in one week, it's an statistical exercise. > > AT election day we have 3 different elections: > local municipality (really its "house" which then elects the cabinett > including "city major") > the same for "län" (country council) > and state (election elects the country's riksdag - "house") > > Riksdagen elects statsminister (normally, the situation now is a bit > peculiar.) > > The state administration thru its "länsstyrelser" (who is geographical > areas corresponding to "län/region" (country council) it responsible > for counting and tabulating votes (country council election and > riksdagen.) >
