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	Elections in Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brazil elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature.
		Brazil has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which often no one party has a chance of gaining power alone, and so must work with each other to form coalition governments.
		Brazil was the first country in the world to have fully electronic elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Brazil (836 words)

	Brazil - The Electoral System
		Brazil has four types of majority elections: the president, governors, and mayors are elected by absolute majorities; senators, by simple majorities.
		In elections for president, governors, and mayors of cities with more than 200,000 voters, a runoff is required between the top two candidates if no one receives an absolute majority in the first round (50 percent plus at least one vote).
		State and national elections are scheduled for 1998 and 2002, two years out of phase with municipal elections, which are set for 1996 and 2000.
	countrystudies.us /brazil/100.htm (989 words)

	Councilmember Harold Brazil
		Brazil held the seat of the Ward Six Councilmember for six years, he had won with 91% of the vote, the highest margin of victory of any candidate in the 1994 elections.
		Brazil is Chair of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Member of the Committees on Finance and Revenue, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and Economic Development.
		Brazil also is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Library Theater, Washington Parents' Group Fund, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, and a host of other professional, charitable and community organizations.
	www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us /members/BRAZIL (469 words)

	Elections in Brazil: The first round heralds polarisation and instability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The most striking features of the recent elections in Brazil on October 1 are the clear victory of the left and a large political polarisation.
		In the first round of the 2002 presidential elections the right-wing candidate of the PSDB, Serra, the only candidate to stand for the right, received only 23.2% of the votes and was more than 20 points behind Lula.
		But the fact is that this elite is the one that exists in Brazil and is a factor in the equation.
	www.marxist.com /elections-brazil-polarisation051006.htm (1574 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Brazil
		The 1988 constitution stipulates that the Federative Republic of Brazil is a legal democratic state, in which all power emanates from the people, who exercise it by means of elected representatives or directly.
		Both the federal government and the governments of Brazil's 26 states consist of executive, legislative and judicial branches; likewise, the Federal District, where the capital city of Brasilia is located, has its own government and legislature.
		In the 1998 presidential election, Cardoso - who had successfully persuaded Congress to amend the constitution and allow presidential re-election for a single term - was re-elected on the first round by an absolute majority, with Lula in second place once again.
	electionresources.org /br (1601 words)

	Elections Over, Brazil's President-Elect Faces Economic Challenges
		According to Standard & Poor's, managing Brazil's fiscal dynamics will require the strong and decisive commitment of the new president and other policymakers to deepen fundamental fiscal reform and adopt some of the tough and unpopular measures needed to rebalance Brazil's public finances.
		However, Brazil's ratings could come under downward pressure if the commitment to a tight fiscal stance and structural reform falters under the new government or if policy responses to changing economic conditions prove to be inadequate.
		"Brazil's credit standing could stabilize with further indications of broad political support for maintaining a tight fiscal stance (no less than that outlined in the IMF agreement) and plans to advance the reform agenda to reduce economic vulnerabilities," Ms.
	www.standardandpoors.com /europe/francais/Fr_news/Brazil_28-10-02.html (686 words)

	BRAZIL: parliamentary elections Senado Federal, 2002
		Elections were held for two-thirds (54) of the 81 seats in the Senate on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		On 6 October 2002, Brazilians went to the polls to elect a new President together with all the 513 members of the House of Deputies, two-thirds of the 81 members of the Senate and the state governors.
		The elections were held against a background of great economic uncertainty and above all in financial markets as many investors had pulled out of Brazil pushing the country's currency, the real, to its worst lows against the dollar; in October 2002, it was worth 37 per cent less than at the beginning of the year.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2044_02.htm (595 words)

	EnterBrasil - Elections
		Brazil has the most modern computerized electoral system in the world and is attracting attention from abroad
		It carried out the first large-scale electronic election in 1996, when 32.5 million voters, almost 30% of the Brazilian electorate, voted in around 77 electronic voting booths installed in all the capitals and cities with more than 200,000 voters, covering 57 municipalities.
		The company leapt even further in the elections of 2000, when the TSE commanded the first completely computerized elections in the world.
	www.enterbrasil.com /election/election.html (660 words)

	MercuryNews.com \| 09/29/2006 \| Electronic voting raises new election questions in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Elections in Brazil used to be a monumental challenge, with millions of paper ballots to count by hand, many of them delivered by canoe and horseback from remote Amazon villages.
		Brazil's machines are made by Diebold Procomp, the Brazilian subsidiary of Diebold Inc., of North Canton, Ohio, which also makes many of the voting machines now used in U.S. elections.
		Brazil did build in some safeguards during its transition to electronic voting -- protections that still don't exist in the U.S. While the code behind Microsoft's operating system remains secret, independent auditors must approve of the overlying voting software before it is inserted into the nation's 430,000 machines.
	www.sunherald.com /mld/sunherald/business/technology/15640530.htm (956 words)

	Sao Paulo Elections
		Brazil COMMANDING an annual budget of 43 billion reais ($37 billion), and looking after 34m people and a $280 billion economy-nearly as big as Argentina's-the governor of Sao Paulo state could claim to be the equal of many a Latin American president.
		Yet the campaign to win it in the elections on October 4th is proving very different.
		On current polls, the election is heading for a run-off on October 25th between Francisco Rossi and Paulo Maluf, two old-fashioned populists.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~poli354/980905_Brazil_elections.html (737 words)

	Brazil 1961-1964 KH
		When the leading members of the US diplomatic mission in Brazil held a meeting one-day in March 1964, they arrived at the consensus that President Joao Goulart's support of social and economic reforms was a contrived and thinly veiled vehicle to seize dictatorial power.
		Agee adds that the CIA carried out a consistent propaganda campaign against Goulart which dated from at least the 1962 election operation and which included the financing of mass urban demonstrations, "proving the old themes of God, country, family and liberty to be as effective as ever" in undermining a government.
		A year after the coup, trade between Brazil and the USSR was running at $120 million per year and a Brazilian mission was planning to go to Moscow to explore Soviet willingness to provide a major industrial plant.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blum/Brazil_KH.html (2907 words)

	Crisis and elections: Where is Brazil going?
		Brazil faces an historic election in October, just as the country faces a severe economic crisis.
		Given the continent-wide scenario of sharpening crisis and mass resistance, the radicalisation of the class struggle in Brazil and the beginning of the construction of a left and socialist alternative has the potential to intensify the offensive of the mass movement throughout Latin America.
		Brazil is second only to Colombia in the numbers of homicides with 44,000 people murdered every year.
	www.socialismtoday.org /68/brazil.html (2957 words)

	Elections in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since voting in elections for public offices in Brazil is mandatory for citizens over 18, and because such elections are also -- and pioneerly -- conducted by similar electronic devices, an ensuing Watergate-like affair resulted in his resignation.
		No mention given to the fact that operational election officials were not instructed to remove a "security" seal blocking the exit path of the slips of paper from the small add-on printer, before sealing the bag onto it, causing those with sealed path to jam during operation.
		Brazil's pioneer experience with e-voting evidences the flawed nature of such simplistic reasoning, while giving yet more pointers to the fact that election security is a matter of balancing risks and responsibilities.
	www.cic.unb.br /docentes/pedro/trabs/election.htm (3393 words)

	americas.org - Elections in Brazil: What's at stake in the runoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If Alckmin wins the elections set for Oct. 29, Brazil's policies are likely to change radically, particularly as they affect the Mercosur and relations with the rest of the Latin American nations and the rest of the underdeveloped world.
		As I write these lines, the two contenders and their parties are trying to ally with the rest of the political organizations so as to obtain a majority of the votes.
		Sectors of the Democratic Movement of Brazil, which has split into numerous factions, have given their support to one candidate or the other.
	www.americas.org /item_29798 (1216 words)

	Brazil - Brazzil Magazine
		Brazil had a new president for a day on November 13, 2006, a communist called Aldo Rebelo, who is chairman of the House of Representatives.
		This was because Brazil's Constitution states that whenever the president and vice president are outside the country the chairman of the Lower House of Congress becomes acting president.
		For example, in his victory speech after the election, Lula indicated that the increase in the number of votes for him, as compared to the 2002 election, shows that the Brazilian people are satisfied with his accomplishments during his first term.
	www.brazzil.com (3469 words)

	Brazil - General Elections, 1994
		The 1994 elections were significant because the presidential election coincided with the general elections for governor, senator, and federal and state deputy for the first time since 1950.
		Cardoso went on to win the election outright on the first round with 54.3 percent of the valid votes cast (44.1 percent of the total vote, including blank and null ballots) (see table 25, Appendix).
		The 1994 gubernatorial election was the fourth in a series of direct elections for governor since their reinstatement in 1982.
	countrystudies.us /brazil/103.htm (1066 words)

	Politics of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Brazil takes place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Brazil is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Throughout its history, Brazil has struggled to build a democratic and egalitarian society, despite its origins as a plantation colony and the strong influence of slavery.
		Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil was governed by the military in alliance with conservative sectors of the civilian economic and social elite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Brazil (2389 words)

	Brazil
		The meeting was introduced by Serge Goulart, leader of the occupied factories movement in Brazil, and present in the audience was also Roberto Chavez, the general secretary of the Bolivian Miners’ Federation.
		The meeting is being called mainly by the movement of occupied factories and is the continuation of the First Latin American Gathering of Occupied Factories which took place in Caracas in November 2005.
		We have received this appeal from workers in Brazil in an occupied factory that are being threatened by a court decision to remove machinery from the factory.
	www.marxist.com /brazil.htm (1386 words)

	ELECTIONS-BRAZIL: Suspense - a Latecomer to the Campaign
		The other source of suspense that has heightened interest in media coverage of the elections once again are the questions not yet answered by the police in the case of an alleged smear campaign by the ruling Workers Party (PT) against the opposition.
		The aim, according to the president, was to generate news reports on judicial action against members of the PT on the eve of the elections.
		Although voting is mandatory in Brazil, abstention was expected to be relatively high prior to the "dossier scandal", since a Lula victory appeared to be a foregone conclusion, and because of the disrepute into which politicians have fallen.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=34933 (916 words)

	Brazil's runoff elections to determine 31 mayors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil --Brazil's biggest cities chose mayors in runoff elections Friday, as polls suggested voters prefer can-do candidates over ideologues.
		More than 22 million Brazilians were eligible to choose mayors for 31 cities, including Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting Oct. 3.
		Election officials said the first results would be known by today if a new electronic vote counting system works.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/11/16/brazil.html (301 words)

	City Mayors: Brazil municipal elections
		The elections are widely seen as a mid-term verdict on President Lula’s administration in Brasilia, with mixed fortunes for all concerned at this stage.
		It being Brazil, there is no shortage of colour or controversy in the race for the São Paulo mayoralty, especially in terms of the candidates.
		Marta shot to prominence politically after a career as a TV sexologist and was certain for election in 2000 in one of the PT’s strongholds.
	www.citymayors.com /politics/brazil_04elections.html (2538 words)

	Natal Brazil: Elections in Brazil
		Voters are called to vote for President of the Republic, Senators, Federal Deputies, Governor of State and State Deputies (elections for Mayor and City Councils happened in 2004, and will happen again in 2008).
		This started around mid-August and will last until the Friday before the elections; if there is a need for a second round, so there will be a second round of propaganda.
		It is common talk in Natal and Brazil to downplay this political propaganda (much because it appears at all channels, and postpones the display of the "novelas" - soapboxes -, most important program of Brazilian families).
	www.natal-brazil.com /blog/2006/08/elections-in-brazil.html (385 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Brazil president, challenger to face off in televised debate
		SAO PAULO, Brazil – Brazil's president and his challenger face each other for the first time Sunday in a presidential debate ahead of an Oct. 29 runoff election.
		Despite the fallout, Silva, a former firebrand union leader in his fifth presidential election, is known for his charisma and ability to communicate well with an audience.
		Regardless, he is a strong candidate whose political strength lies in Brazil's industrialized and wealthier south.
	www.uniontrib.com /news/world/20061008-1358-brazil-elections.html (370 words)

	Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil
		At each crisis of the bourgeois regime, the capitalists act to save their capital and their "holy" private property; they act to maintain and even increase their profits, whether by lowering wages, abrogating rights, increasing the prices of products, that is to say, by deepening the brutal exploitation of the people and the workers.
		They employ all means to achieve these objectives, particularly the repression of the workers and of strikes; the propaganda and the deception of the media, and the farce of elections, since they own capital, the newspapers, the TV networks and radio stations.
		Brazil, since its capitalist economy is deeply dominated by the imperialist monopolies, is suffering devastating consequences.
	www.mltranslations.org /Brazil/manifesto.htm (5361 words)

	Norman Madarasz: The Elections in Brazil
		Brazil's current vulnerability lies in its isolated position with respect to the powerful economic community blocks of the world.
		Earlier this year, a possible rapprochement between Brazil and France had lain on the horizon as opinion polls were citing Lionel Jospin as successor to Chirac and the country's second Socialist president.
		Brazil's leftwing party is now quite alone on a terrain if not populated by wolves then at least deeply lacking in possible alliances.
	www.counterpunch.org /madarasz0805.html (3287 words)

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