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.

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