An error margin of 2% in municipal elections ruled acceptable in Finland

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Earlier last year, Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) reported of the Finnish e-voting pilot
which took place in three Finnish municipalities on 26 October 2008.
232 votes were lost due to various usability and apparent performance issues.
Additionally, there is risk of a breach of the anonymity of the votes,
because the electronic ballot box has been archived with information on who voted and how.
The e-voting project had been strongly criticised by Effi from its inception for the lack of transparency both in the 
process and software."
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More at
http://www.effi.org/blog/2009-01-29-finland-evoting-ruling.html

Background:
Finnish e-voting fiasco: votes lost
http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2008-October/018727.html

Juha-Matti
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