[DanielHB]

Corruption is not a single axis, for example college entrance exams and voting in brazil are very trustworthy in my opinion.

Institutions are corrupt, not a whole country. Sure there is some level of infection between institutions but there is still a lot of a single one can do.

[forinti]

One thing you don't see in Brazil is traffic police or bureaucrats asking for petty bribes, something which is quite common in neighbouring countries.

Corruption is a problem for sure, but I think incompetence and lack of initiative are far worse issues in the Brazilian executive.

[tarruda]

> voting in brazil are very trustworthy

How can a closed system that cannot be audited be considered trustworthy? After the voting happens, there's no physical proof of the vote.

Highly recommend reading this: https://dfaranha.github.io/project/evoting/

[matheusmoreira]

Because the supreme court judge has decreed that the voting machines are UNQUESTIONABLE. That's all there is to it. Not even our elected representatives get to doubt these things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

Fun fact: brazilians commonly express feelings of superiority towards civilized developed world nations because of these voting machines. They think americans, germans and everyone else in the world are living in the literal stone age due to their "archaic" voting processes just because it takes time to count the votes.