pacific rim countries

Global Electronic Voting

While some developing nations have embraced e-voting machines, more developed European and Pacific Rim countries have been much slower on the uptake.

A decade ago, Brazilian Minister Carlos Velloso, president of the Superior Electoral Court, made a speech in which he promised a nation free of election fraud through the use of e-voting machines. Although there’s still room for debate about whether Brazil’s rapid move to e-voting solved all their electron-fraud problems, since 2000 the country’s elections have been conducted entirely on electronic voting kiosks.

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