Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
by xyzzy_plugh on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:23PM
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What about those who are underage? There's a surely a large internet-savy base with phone numbers who would otherwise be unable to vote.
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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
by notahacker on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:57PM
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Underage people and foreigners are in the 'unable to vote for perfectly normal reasons' bracket. Extrapolating from census figures, you'd need pretty much every single person in the 13-17 age range to vote Tikhanovskaya to make up the disparity between Telegram and official tallies though. And if she got literally every teenager in the country to register a protest vote on a web app, there's a sneaking suspicion she might actually have got more than her 10% official tally with the adults too...