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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><small><i>></i><i>On 17/06/2014
16:10, Yama Ploskonka wrote:</i><i><br>
</i><i>> .... the use of XO laptops, locally knows as
"Ceibalitas"</i></small><br>
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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>).<br>
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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.<br>
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<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>.<br>
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Those Laptops comes with Ubuntu. They were used on the elections
for administrative task, not for voting.<br>
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Ther was many kind of problems , problems with the internet, with
the power, and also with the software, but<br>
One of the most common problems was human, not technical. <br>
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. <br>
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.<br>
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Paolo Benini<br>
Montevideo<br>
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