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+-   Finnish e-voting fiasco: votes lost on Tuesday October 28 2008, @04:30PM kaip

Submitted by kaip on Tuesday October 28 2008, @04:30PM
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kaip writes "Finland piloted a fully electronic voting system in municipal elections last weekend. Due to a usability glitch 232 votes or about 2% of all electonic votes were lost. The results of the election may have been affected because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of few votes. But nobody knows for sure because the ministry of justice didn't see absolutely any need to implement a voter-verified paper record. The ministry was of course duly warned about a fully electronic voting system, but the critique was debunked as "science fiction". There is now discussion about re-arranging the affected elections. Thanks for our voting system providers Scytl and TietoEnator for the experience."
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