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Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-america-we-call-that-the-margin-of-error dept.

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 electronic votes were lost. The results of the election may have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes. Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure, because the Ministry of Justice didn't see 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 go to the voting system providers, Scytl and TietoEnator, for the experience."

7 of 366 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Usability Glitch? by Kenoli · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently some people (approximately 2%) have problems following simple instructions. Clearly a glitch in the system.

  2. Re:Usability Glitch? by Adrian+Lopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some voters did not press "ok" for the second time.

    Press OK to Finnish?

    --
    "In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
  3. Re:Usability Glitch? by Adrian+Lopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn. I meant to post that as an Anonymous Coward.

    --
    "In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
  4. Re:Commies to blame? by francium+de+neobie · · Score: 3, Funny

    We've always been at war with Eastasia, you know?

  5. Re:voting machines sales that go to the lowest bid by MorderVonAllem · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they really wanted a good system, they should have looked up who makes those ATM machines for banks.

    What? Like Diebold?

  6. Re:Usability Glitch? by sumdumass · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's probably one of those things that works in theory and blows up in operation. I guess you can say it looked good on paper.

  7. Re:voting machines sales that go to the lowest bid by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    You want George Bush to win the election in Finland?