Reply #5: It is indeed. Got my edition yesterday and can't stop reading.

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Corporate press, everywhere, operates like a real mafia, with no other goal than defending status quo. As Paul Virilio once said, "the press is the only power that has the privilege of creating its own laws, at the same time that it defends the pretension of not being submitted to others". The hope for a change in the political and economic structure worldwide lies on the people understanding that they are not clients of corporate press, but merely produtcs.

I also share your worries about electronic voting and, indeed, there's a huge propaganda aimed at making Brazilians buy the "modern, efficient, advanced" argument. This question has raised concern among leftists, with journalist Paulo Henrique Amorim being the most ferocious critic of this system.

In 2010 elections, Amorim pointed to possible frauds caused by eletronic voting in three Brazilian states. In Paraná, a governor (from PSDB) that was falling in polls was elected, after prohibiting the publication of polls. In São Paulo, a senator (from PSDB) that was completely unknown to the people and did not even appeared among the 5 top competitors to the Senate in the polls was elected, without any plausible explanation and against all commons sense. And in Maranhão, the poorest state of Brazil, a member aristocratic family that controls the local politics for almost two centuries and whose defeat in the elections had been forecast by all polls was elected with a difference of 4,000 votes (among 4 million voters).

In fact, a couple of years ago, the Brazilian congress aproved a law that established compulsory fiscalization auditing for electronic voting. Each vote computed in the machines would generate a supporting document that would be kept by the citizens and the Electoral Justice to facilitate auditings, when necessary. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court rejected the law, following the argument of electoral prosecutor Sandra Cureau that the supporting document would be illegal, for supposedly desrespecting the secrecy of the vote granted by the Constitution.
[br />Sandra Cureau became known for her role in the 2010 elections in Brazil for doing everything she could to favor PSDB and harm the worker's party.

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If you put her name in Google images you might have an idea of how much loved she's in Brazil after that.