go away
It isn’t really mandatory in practice. If you don’t vote you have to either justify it or pay a fine.
The fine is less than 3 dollars currently. Not a lot for an American, not a lot for a Brazilian. It does vary, but doesn’t go into the double digits.
Being outside your designed voting place is a valid justification, being sick is a valid justification - the system really isn’t so strict.
Would say it’s symbolically mandatory
Being a fascist is bad enough, being an incompetent fascist is more than bad enough.
Now being an incompetent fascist that get’s humiliated against someone as old as trump is downright sad.
Lost me on that. Pen and paper aren’t at all more secure than Brazilian voting machines.
They are essentially low spec linux computers without ports, internet acess or easy way in. The only thing they do it store results and print them on paper.
Even if one manages to crack open a machine and sneak something inside, there is security to prevent it to pass as genuine
What makes you think C++ is awful?
Hackers still doing cryptominers nowadays? C’mon, get with the times, install a LLM model on people’s computers instead.
This news article seems to have rubbed my grandma the wrong way