<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">>On 17/06/2014 16:10, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > .... the use of XO laptops, locally knows as "Ceibalitas" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Ceibalitas" aren't only the XO. "Ceibalitas" is the nickname to the Ceibal's Laptops. (Clasmates, Xo, Tablets, ETc etc, <a href="http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/estudiantes/Especificacionestecnicas">there are 12 different models</a>). On the last elections in Uruguay there was used the "<a href="http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/consultas/hardwaremagallanes4">Magallanes</a>" (similar to the classmates), not the XO. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.180.com.uy/articulo/40346_El-uso-de-las-ceibalitas-en-las-elecciones-internas">http://www.180.com.uy/articulo/40346_El-uso-de-las-ceibalitas-en-las-elecciones-internas</a>. Those Laptops comes with Ubuntu. They were used on the elections for administrative task, not for voting. Ther was many kind of problems , problems with the internet, with the power, and also with the software, but One of the most common problems was human, not technical. normally they have to fill a handwrite form with the votes of each voting location, and the totals and sub-totals sometimes don't match. In the handwrited form those errors don't matter. But in an electronic form the sub-totals has to match, because the computer refuses to close the form if the sub-totals and totals don't match, so you have to re-count all the votes by hand another time, loosing hours and hours. Paolo Benini Montevideo </div> </body> </html>