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Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result

Posted by kdawson on from the go-back-jack-do-it-again dept.

wizzor writes in with a follow-up on the Finnish municipal election in which 2% of the votes were lost by a defective e-voting system, and which the Helsinki Administrative Court had found acceptable. Now the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland has rejected the election results (original in Finnish; bad Google translation here) and ordered the election to be re-run. The submitter adds, "Apparently 98% of the votes isn't enough to determine how the remaining 2% voted, after all."

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  1. From EFFI by Razalhague · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's an article in non-google-translated English. Also contains some other links in English.

  2. Re:Banking doesn't usually require anonymity by Sheafification · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you gave up secret voting, you could likely make a 'secure enough' voting system, since anyone could check their own vote in the system.

    There's no need to give up on secret voting to get this. Thanks to advances in cryptography we can have secret *and* verifiable ballots. An example implementation can be found at Helios voting. Also, check out a description of a paper based system: Scratch and Vote [PDF]