Swiss Town Holds First Internet Vote

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Swiss Town Holds First Internet Vote

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 20, 2003 @01:40AM from the buy-socks-and-choose-politicians dept.

felix.rauch writes "According to an article on Swissinfo, a small town near Geneva (Switzerland) held the first Internet-based vote this weekend. 44% of the voters (323) cast teir ballot over the Internet. Officials believe it may have been the first Internet-vote worldwide. While the Swiss media seem enthusiastic about the project, I see serious security and privacy concerns. The voters had to enter a 16-digit password, as well as their birthplace, date of birth and another number sent to them by post. Personally I think Internet-voting should be avoided until it's implemented by an open zero-knowledge protocol and checkable afterwards. Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?"

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This should be in the US. by Emperor+Shaddam+IV · 2003-01-20 01:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Cool, I wish they would get this in the US. I could vote while playing Civilization. I could setup a leader for each candiate and vote according to which one is doing best against me!
1. Re:This should be in the US. by Emperor+Shaddam+IV · 2003-01-20 02:17 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Think about it, if the Psilons were in charge, we would be so technically advanced, we could clone a 'Elerian' for everyone.
  
  Thats my platform, vote for the Psilons, and a Elerian in every house!!
In the US by Emperor+Shaddam+IV · 2003-01-20 01:45 · Score: 5, Funny

In the US we don't need the internet to tamper with voting result. Heck, even Dead people vote sometimes. In fact, voting 2 times is pretty easy. You can even give someone a beer and cigarettes to vote how you want them too!
1. Re:In the US by Vengie · 2003-01-20 02:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  >Heck, even Dead people vote sometimes
  Heck, even dead people get ELECTED sometimes.
  
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2. Re:In the US by EvilTwinSkippy · 2003-01-20 02:26 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  I seem to recall a prominant woman in Louisiana wished to be buried in a particular county, so she could remain politically active.
  
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  "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
  --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
3. Re:In the US by Vengie · 2003-01-20 11:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Moderation Totals: Funny=3, Overrated=2, Total=5.
  We need a new moderation: -1, I didn't get the joke, because I didn't realize that the american populace recently elected a dead senator.
  AND
  -1: I didn't get the joke. (moron mods)
  *grumble*
  
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  When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
Re:Trust by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-20 01:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Jeb Bush can!
Re:Take off your Tin Foil Hat and give it a rest by terrencefw · 2003-01-20 01:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Whats next? All toilets should have built in Radiation generators to ensure no DNS can be recovered after you take a dump, because god knows the goverment has DNS tracers in every toilet in the US And can track your movements by them..
I don't go leaving my DNS in public toilets! The only place you can get my DNS is up my port 53!

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The Results by ackthpt · 2003-01-20 01:57 · Score: 5, Funny

...44% of the voters (323) cast teir ballot over the Internet. Officials believe it may have been the first Internet-vote worldwide. While the Swiss media seem enthusiastic about the project, I see serious security and privacy concerns. The voters had to enter a 16-digit password, as well as their birthplace, date of birth and another number sent to them by post...
The Result:
31% Pepperoni
26% Sausage
17% Mushroom
15% Cheese
6% Capers
5% CowboyNeal's BBQ'd Bits -o- Spam

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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Fortunately for Chad... by EvilTwinSkippy · 2003-01-20 01:58 · Score: 1, Funny

They have dissasembled the gallows, as for this vote they no longer need Hanging Chads.
Now pregnant Chads... that I leave to science.

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"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
yes, lets do this by JeanBaptiste · 2003-01-20 02:03 · Score: 1, Funny

and 'hank the angry drunken dwarf' will be our next president thanks to some 14 year old kid listening to the howard stern show....
Results by CaptainSuperBoy · 2003-01-20 02:05 · Score: 2, Funny

The article didn't mention the results of the election, so here they are:
1.4% voted yes
.9% voted no
97.7% voted for Cindy Margolis
Also, 34% pressed 111 to indicate that they wanted to cyber.
So... by sfled · 2003-01-20 02:05 · Score: 3, Funny

..did Kevin Mitnick win the election?

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You know what I'm waiting for....... by xianzombie · 2003-01-20 02:16 · Score: 3, Funny

FIRST VOTE!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, what would an online voting system be with out a few random trolls....
the first internet vote... by syle · 2003-01-20 02:33 · Score: 3, Funny

... And that's how CowboyNeal got elected president of Geneva.

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/syle
1. Re:the first internet vote... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-20 11:03 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Cool! I didn't know cities could have presidents!
Re:Take off your Tin Foil Hat and give it a rest by Motherfucking+Shit · 2003-01-20 02:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Whats next? All toilets should have built in Radiation generators to ensure no DNS can be recovered after you take a dump, because god knows the goverment has DNS tracers in every toilet in the US And can track your movements by them..
I'd hate to be the poor schmuck whose job it is to track the "movements" I leave behind in public toilets...

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"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
Voting and AOL Users by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-20 02:45 · Score: 1, Funny

Actually, only the first vote was cast for someone. The other 322 votes were cryptic "ME, TOO" votes.