* Pirate party founder: 'Online voting? Would you want 4chan to decide your government?'* /Rick Falkvinge backs electronic voting but warns of potential for abuse if the process goes entirely online/ Stuart Dredge Wednesday 21 January 2015 10.58 GMT In 2012, a contest for US schools to win a gig by Taylor Swift was hijacked by members of the 4chan website, who piled on its online vote in an attempt to send the pop star to a school for deaf children. Now, imagine a similar stunt being pulled for a general election, if voting could be done online. Far-fetched? Not according to Rick Falkvinge, founder of Sweden’s Pirate party. “Voting over the internet? Would you really want 4chan to decide your next government?” he said, during a debate about democracy and technology in London, organised by the BBC as part of its Democracy Day event. […] Continua qui: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/21/pirate-party-online-voting...