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Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck

Posted by timothy on from the anybody-but-pirate-party dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish elections were held recently (the third Sunday of September to be exact) and it seems that a few people tried to interfere with the election by voting for parties which were in effect named to be SQL injection attacks or similar. Clever stuff! Little Bobby Tables in real life." That wasn't the only oddity of the election; reader MZeroOne writes: "The Swedish Election Authority published the results of last Sunday's general election and even though the current prime minister retained power, the candidate who got the most individual handwritten votes was Disney's Donald Duck." Maybe the existence of the Hard Alcohol Party (237 votes) helps explain why the Pirate Party didn't have a better showing.

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  1. For those who are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sweden, is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

    1. Re:For those who are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      [typical American]Planet Earth? That's from Star Wars, isn't it?[/typical American]

    2. Re:For those who are American by caluml · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its capital is Bern, and they are famous for cuckoo clocks and Hitler.

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    3. Re:For those who are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      [typical European]Help the Germans are coming. Someone better call America for help.[typical European]

    4. Re:For those who are American by V!NCENT · · Score: 2, Funny

      USA: Yes?
      Eurpope: Oh hai thar, teh Germanz be attacking us! Help!
      USA: Yes the state of germania. I've been there during my trip in Africa I believe. How unfortunate. We realy feel sorry for-
      Europa: Oh and they have an intercontinental ballistic missile program, underground intercontinenal balistic missile bunkers facing in the direction of the US; under contructio-
      USA: Right away!

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  2. Re:For those who don't read XKCD. by JazzXP · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's somebody on /. that hasn't seen that comic?!?!

  3. Reality catching up to fiction by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the Norm MacDonald Show, Laurie's concession speech:

    "I'd like to congratulate the winners who got more votes than I did, write-in candidates Mickey Mouse and pornstar Wendy Whoopers."

  4. Re:For those who are European by Nadaka · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhh, The Finnish may as well be Russians, Norway is that other country up there nobody cares about and WTF is Denmark? (Im joking everyone)

    Denmark? Well Horatio, it smells kinda rotten.

  5. Re:as an american, i am intrigued by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's a perfectly valid question, especially if their knowledge of europeans is limited to frenchmen.