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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 don't read XKCD. by Dayofswords · · Score: 5, Informative

    The 'Little Bobby Tables' reference:

    "Exploits of a Mom"
    http://xkcd.com/327/

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  2. Hard Alcohol Party... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... sadly isn't what you'd think. They are antibooze-ists. Huge disappointment.
    Translated homepage: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.spritpartiet.se/&prev=_t&twu=1

    On a separate note, other notable entities voted for were "Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits", and a silly javascript insertion attempt. Full data at http://www.val.se/val/val2010/handskrivna/handskrivna.skv

  3. Re:The Pirate Party probably was a one-hit wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most pirates probably just vote for the green party (miljöpartiet) instead - they changed their policy to support filesharing after the pp got 7% in the EU election - because they are a mainstream party and there was no doubt that they would get in. How much of a difference this has made I don't know but they did do very well in the election.

    Their internet-related policies

  4. Re:For those who are American by arb+phd+slp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Bern is the capital of Switzerland (which is also famous for the clocks), and Hitler was born in Austria and was the dictator of Germany. It looks like you've got some problems with geography and history.

    That's just, like, your opinion, man.

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  5. Re:Donald Duck by BetterThanCaesar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spelt is a valid and common spelling. I'm not from North America.

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spelt#Etymology_1

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