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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by emerongi on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:32AM (#19357281)
Half-facetious. If a government really wants to hold on to power by force, they can do it one way or another - elections end up being theatre in that case anyways.
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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by mamon on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:25AM (#19357451)
Except in Soviet Union terrorizing all the opposition parties/majority of voters was long, costly and brutal process. Online voting makes the whole thing cheap, easy, and undetectable.
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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by antris on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:44AM (#19357730)
And they got caught. Everyone knew the elections were rigged. With electronic vote you can get away with the crime and nobody's wiser.
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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by Strom on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:45AM (#19358506)
Vote results are always really close to pre-election poll results. You can't really manipulate the results too much unless you somehow prohibit polling.
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