Finnish Court Accepts E-Voting Result With 2% Lost

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 31, 2009 @08:01PM from the few-votes-among-friends dept.

Nailor writes "The Helsinki Administrative court accepted the municipal voting result in an election in which 2% of votes cast were not counted at all. We discussed this situation at the time. The court noted that the e-voting machinery has a feature, that should be considered as an issue. However, it also noted that 'a little over two percent failure rate can not be considered as such as a proof that the voting official would have acted erroneously.' Does this mean 98% of votes is enough to figure out how the other 2% voted? Electronic Frontier Finland has a press release about the court decision (Google translation; Finnish original)."

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Re:Failed to Finnish by jaria · 2009-01-31 22:23 · Score: 5, Funny

> Did they offer any reimbursement for the people whose vote they didn't count?
I am considering paying 2% less taxes this year. Clearly, 2% is within the allowable government tolerances.
Oh my... by spazdor · 2009-02-01 08:37 · Score: 3, Funny

OMG...
Did you just...

If it is a first past the post system this is a problem.
OH NO YOU DI'INT!

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Re:Failed to Finnish by BOFHelsinki · 2009-02-01 09:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually it was modded "Finny" but Slashdot got it only 98% correct, which we find perfectly acceptable.

"Finland -- the democracy where 49% decide what the other 49% can do."