[rbanffy]

> They all possess the ability to hack Brazilian elections.

It's much easier to attack a democracy through disinfo campaigns and sponsoring coups. It was like that in the ousting of Dilma in 2016 (yesterday yet another court of law ruled she didn't commit an impeachable offense). Far-right ultra-nationalist propaganda has been used - with enormous success, I must add - to destabilize both countries like Brazil up to the whole EU (Brexit, anyone?).

In Brazil we are amidst a scandal that points to the president himself ordered higher highway patrol enforcement specifically in regions where the opposition candidate was expected to win more votes, in an attempt to limit participation in those specific demographics.

> What we try to do is to make hacking not worthwhile by raising the difficulty level.

I worked in the 2002 election (for Unisys, who made a lot of the voting machines) and the machine itself, its software, and all the handling protocols around it are designed to make hacking it a very high-effort/low-return affair. As I mentioned before, there are many ways to push an election they way of a candidate, but, in Brazil at least, none of those pass through the voting system.