Google for Representative

Now that city representatives elections has ended here in Brazil (and that this candidate has been elected), we can talk about it: Caxias do Sul, one of the biggest cities in southern Brazil had a Google candidate.

Gustavo Toigo Vereador

Any resemblance?

Note: the sentence under the hypopotame means “It will be nice!”

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Edit 1: If anyone wants to get more information on the representative, check his website: http://www.gustavotoigo.com.br/

Slashdot and Brazilian Elections

It’s amazing how a simple computer application can make people impressed: Slashdot published a note about brazilian voting system and it generated a lot of replies.

John Sokol writes “I just heard from a good friend and Linux kernel hacker in Brazil that they have just finished their municipal election with 128 million people using Linux to vote. They voted nationwide for something like 5,000 city mayors. Voting is mandatory in Brazil. The embedded computer they are using once ran VirtuOS (a variant of MS-DOS); it now has its own locally developed, Linux-based distro. These are much nicer, smaller, and cheaper than the systems being deployed here in the US. Here is a Java-required site with a simulated Brazilian voting system. It’s very cool; they even show you a picture of the candidate you voted for.”

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/002922