“ABIN Plans To Steal the Elections For Lula!”

Simulation of electronic democracy on the TSE Web site: Until recently, required Windows, but is now penguin-powered.

“We have no evidence that points to the existence of fraud involving the electronic voting machine.” –Gustavo Fruet (PSDB-São Paulo)

CPI dos Grampos põe em dúvida segurança das urnas: Members of the Brazilian opposition in a parliamentary commission of inquiry focusing on court-ordered wiretapping are using charges that ABIN bugged the Supreme Court for Lula to raise suspicions that ABIN may be tampering with the Brazilian voting machine for Lula.

The Estado de S. Paulo reports. The money quote:

“We have no evidence that points to the existence of fraud involving the electronic voting machine.” –Gustavo Fruet (PSDB-São Paulo)

If they did have evidence, this story might actually be news rather than a gabbling factoid based on at least three nested contrary-to-fact conditionals.

He who assumes makes an ass …

Some members of that wiretap commission had been overheard on wiretaps leaked to the press, discussing what sounded quite a bit like criminal behavior, such as having witnesses against them and their friends whacked out.

I will have to go and see what those very knowledgeable folks at Voto Seguro — a Brazilian e-voting security forum and advocacy group who know all there is to know about how to phreak various flavors of Diebold and other democratic beancounting devices — have to say about the credibility of this suspicion. (First comment on the topic in the forums is: “A spectacle of disinformation from all sides …”)

The opposition is about to get whomped in the national municipal elections, it looks like.

It may be interesting in engaging in the pseudologia of e-voting fraud to cast the result into the outer darkness of David Sasaki-style fear, uncertainty and doubt, like its brethren at ORVEX, the  Miami-based anti-Chavez cult of gibbering agitprop.

BRASÍLIA – O suposto envolvimento da Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Abin) com escutas ilegais pode colocar sob suspeita as urnas eletrônicas utilizadas nas próximas eleições.

The supposed involvement of ABIN in illegal wiretaps may cast suspicion on the electronic voting machines used in the next elections.