In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting 177
Bruce66423 submits a report from The Independent, writing that "a French primary election is made the stuff of farce after journalists defeat the 'secure' election system." From the article: An 'online-primary,' claimed as 'fraud-proof' and 'ultra secure,' has turned out to be vulnerable to multiple and fake voting. The four-day election has also the exposed the poisonous divisions created within the centre-right Union Pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) by the law permitting gay marriage which took effect last week. ... What was already shaping up as a tense and close election was thrown into utter confusion at the weekend. Journalists from the news site Metronews proved that it was easy to breach the allegedly strict security of the election and vote several times using different names."
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Also their appeal commission for electoral matters is named C.O.N.A.R.E which translates pretty much to "asshole" in french.
That name became popular after their tried electing a leader for their party last year, the two sides stuffed ballots, they couldn't find any kind of agreement so far and they now have officially two different leaders and two dozens simultaneous "general secretary" title holders.
The only political form of opposition they actually opposed since the new president got elected was on the topic of gay marriage by showing everyone the immense depth of their evilness, trying to provoke insurrection, throwing racist and homophobic insults and repeating nonsense.
Finally about 3 out of 4 people at the head of this party is either being prosecuted or has already be condemned for various offenses such as buying people's votes, stealing public money, having dead people vote.
Lately Nicolas sarkozy and Eric Woert (previous minister of economy) are being tried for, oh greatness, abusing an old senile lady, the richest in France, the owner of the cosmetics brand Loreal. Suitcases full of euros for financing Sarkozy's campaign.
Another one still Sarkozy but with Claude Guéant (previous minister of intrior), inculpated for receiving money from Muhamar Khadaffi. Possibly up to 50 million dollars.
The minister of interior just before that was Brice Hortefeux and this nice dude with the looks of a wafen SS was condemned for "racist insults" towards militants of hist own party, the mighty UMP.
The present auto proclaimed leader of the UMP is JeanFrancois Copé. His little personal problem is he has been photographed in the house of a convicted weapon dealer, the same person who he signed fiscal exemptions for million euros when he was minister of economy.
And the list goes on and on and on...
Those people, they are rot. They represent everything that is bad in hour country. This is why we can't have nice things.
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The only political form of opposition they actually opposed since the new president got elected was on the topic of gay marriage
OTOH, time is hard for right wing opposition, since the so-called left wing François Hollande is pursuing the exact same economic policy as former right wing president Nicolas Sarkozy.
During the presidential campaign, François Hollande said he would fight finance power and renegociate the treaty on stability, coordination and governance (TSCG) [wikipedia.org], which commits signatories to austerity. He did none of this.