Brazil has recently announced that they’ll be using Linux as the basis for their electronic voting machines, away from Windows CE. In addition, open source software will be used in the auditing process as well as digitally signed verification of the code. This is a significantly different process than used in the United States where a closed source, proprietary system for voting machines was developed by Diebold, a company in North Canton, Ohio which was exposed by a whistle-blower to be lying about the security of their voting machines, which led to a lawsuit against them led by the EFF because of a DMCA takedown order received by none other than your local community colo! Did we forget to mention that Walden O’Dell, then CEO of Diebold, had said that he was committed to delivering votes to Bush in a Republican fund-raising letter for the 2004 election? Things that make you go hmmmm!