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

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 23, 2010 @09:20PM 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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For those who don't read XKCD. by Dayofswords · 2010-09-23 21:27 · Score: 5, Informative

The 'Little Bobby Tables' reference:
"Exploits of a Mom"
http://xkcd.com/327/

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Re:The Pirate Party probably was a one-hit wonder by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-23 22:01 · 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.
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