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Despite the fact that Brazil is the world’s fourth-largest democracy, results from more than 150 million eligible voters are presented mere hours after polls close, thanks to the country’s electronic voting system. And no significant fraud has ever been detected, the AP reports.
Electronic machines were first used in 1996 and the first nationwide, electronic-only vote took place four years later.