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Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes
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."
Shit stirrer !!!!!
This is nothing. In Ohio, there have ALREADY been, in some counties, more early votes than the total number of people living in those counties!! People are voting 72 times! Voter fraud! This is all being done to elect you-know-who to the presidency and I ain't talking about McCain. Let me tell you something. Unless you want you-know-who to redistribute YOUR wealth, you'd better vote for McCain.
What, you say, he won't redistribute my wealth?! Let me tell you something. Raise taxes on the corporations. For a corporation, a tax is like any other expense. It gets factored into the price of the product they make. Corporations don't actually pay ANYTHING in taxes. They merely collect it from their customers and pay it to the government. So when you buy a loaf of bread, school supplies, new tires for your car, a bag of plant food for your yard, or any other product out there, YOU are actually paying those corporations' taxes for them. Even if you're poor. Because it's factored into the price. In the end, corporations exist on paper and money passes through them -- but it's ALWAYS people who end up footing the bill for taxes. That's why once McCain is in office, we need to convince him to push adoption of the FairTax plan.
Joe the Plumber is absolutely right. If you're a hard-working person and you manage, through your blood, sweat, and tears, and through sacrifices and risk-taking, to arrive at success, and it's DIFFICULT to arrive at success, then you are the rightful owner of what you earn and it is NONE of the government's business to "redistribute" your wealth, "spread" your wealth around. It's your wealth and you decide what to do with it. Not you-know-who, who hangs out with terrorists, radicals, Communists, anti-American people. His friends are upstanding citizens like Reverend "God Damn America" Wright, or Bill "I don't regret setting bombs" Ayers. How about Rashid Kalidi and his buddies (Where is that damn tape that the Los Angeles Times has?) Or any of a zillion other really upstanding citizens who obviously care about the well-being of this country.
So go ahead. Listen to what the "mainstream" media, the biased lying dishonest garbage media, is telling you to do and go vote for you-know-who. Go ahead and let them convince you that your wealth needs redistributing. They're already laughing all the way to the bank, but you won't. Or you can vote for John McCain. I disagree with a lot of his ideas, but you bet your wallet I'm voting for him.
Karl Marx was a stupid idiot. His ideas were wrong then. They are wrong now. And they will always be wrong. The Communist Manifesto is GARBAGE as was Marx's brain. Marx was garbage. Marx was trash. Marx was refuse. Marx was rubbish. Karl Marx. A piece of shit. This is AMERICA people. We don't need any of that Communist garbage here.
"...until after several minutes of trying the buttonpress was registered."
No wonder why Nokia phones are slow, if the Finns have are willing to try registering a keypress for several minutes.