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>On 17/06/2014
16:10, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> .... the use of XO laptops, locally knows as "Ceibalitas" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Ceibalitas" aren't only the XO. "Ceibalitas" is the nickname to the Ceibal's Laptops. (Clasmates, Xo, Tablets, ETc etc, there are 12 different models). On the last elections in Uruguay there was used the "Magallanes" (similar to the classmates), not the XO. http://www.180.com.uy/articulo/40346_El-uso-de-las-ceibalitas-en-las-elecciones-internas. Those Laptops comes with Ubuntu. They were used on the elections for administrative task, not for voting. Ther was many kind of problems , problems with the internet, with the power, and also with the software, but One of the most common problems was human, not technical. normally they have to fill a handwrite form with the votes of each voting location, and the totals and sub-totals sometimes don't match. In the handwrited form those errors don't matter. But in an electronic form the sub-totals has to match, because the computer refuses to close the form if the sub-totals and totals don't match, so you have to re-count all the votes by hand another time, loosing hours and hours. Paolo Benini Montevideo |
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