Parana Corporation wins a tender to manufacture electronic voting machines for the elections of 2024
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The value of the contract, according to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, was 1,179,662,728.72 Brazilian reais for 176 thousand ballot boxes, in addition to other services and products.
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The result of the bid was announced on December 27.
The Billionaire package also includes the supply of spare parts for the EU 2022 tractor, development of basic equipment and software models, warranty of the manufactured tractor, application and result media, project design for packaging of the machines, specifications of technical documents, as well as training through firmware development kits.
Ballot boxes for the 2022 elections
The equipment that will ensure the voting exercise for the Brazilian people in 2022 was presented in Manaus on December 13. The EU 2020 model is the first to look different from what voters are used to since 1996.
In addition to the visual aspect, there are other changes:
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- An office station with a full graphic display, no physical keyboard, and a touch-sensitive surface;
- System on a Chip (SOC) processor, 18 times faster than the 2015 model;
- Lithium-iron-phosphate battery: lower maintenance costs because it does not need to be recharged;
- Pen-drive type application media, which provides greater logistical flexibility for TREs in media generation;
- Expected battery life over the life of the jar.
The new electronic ballot box makes voter identification faster. While one person is voting, another person can be identified by the polling station.
This may increase the number of voters in each department or shorten any waiting lists.
UE 2020 also has an improved keyboard, with dual-factor keys. This allows the keyboard itself to report an error if there is a bad connection or a switch with an intermittent short circuit.
It will not be the only model for the 2022 elections. According to TSE, about 225,000 such ballot boxes have been obtained.
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