Worryingly, PDF ballots have been used in remote voting trials, and, in some cases in binding elections in the U.S. over the past decade.
The House of Representatives may impeach a president or another public official by a majority vote; trials of impeached officials are conducted by the Senate, and a two-thirds majority is necessary to convict and remove the individual from office.
For instance, the blockchain-based voting system trial demonstrates how the Swiss government continues to look towards DLT for advancements.
Slightly hunched, with his wooden cane hanging from a tabletop, Barber spoke emphatically about the historic voting rights trial in his home state that has consumed the last few months of his life.
Over the course of North Carolina's voting rights trial last month, more than 40 witnesses took the stand on behalf of the plaintiffs, who argued state Republican lawmakers intentionally discriminated against minority, poor, disabled, rural, and young voters when they passed HB 589.
As Lewis testified in the voting-rights trial, Georgia is "not the same state that it was... in 1965 or in 1975 or even in 1980 or 1990.
But a bout of cancer, now in remission, the fallout from last year's mensalão vote-buying trial involving his government, and Ms Rousseff's popularity make that unlikely unless she stumbles over the next year.
Second, and more importantly, by failing to examine the specifically identified group of uncounted ballots that is claimed to contain the rejected legal votes, the trial court has refused to address the issue presented.
Without ever examining or investigating the ballots that the machine failed to register as a vote, the trial court in this case concluded that there was no probability of a different result.
If the President loses that vote, a trial would take place in the Senate early next year.
