Electronic voting in Brazil

The primary design goal of the voting machine (Portuguese: urna eletrônica) is extreme simplicity, the model being a public phone booth.[This paragraph needs citation(s)] The original operating system was VirtuOS,[2] similar to DOS and includes multitasking support, was developed by Microbase.In 2008, under initiative from the TSE Electronic voting team migrated to a Linux (dubbed UEnux) OS to reduce costs and take full control of development cycle.If the audit failed to produce a positive result (the matching of the votes counted to the sum of the instructions), then the whole election in the State in question would be void.[10][11] The source code to the voting software is closed to the general public, but periodically open for inspection to some entities, universities and to all political parties.[16] For the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections, biometric use was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to avoid touch points for voters and to reduce lines.