RE: [election-services] Twitter

[Sven Rubben <sven_rubben@be.ibm.com>]

Hi,

I saw this post a couple of days ago
about fake facts on Twitter: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/fake_facts_on_t.html

This is of course not completely relevant
because election results are quite visible, at least in Belgium. But I
know for a fact that certain results are copied, some even manually and
with errors (these errors were visible for a few hours :-) ). So someone
could, theoretically, inject false results. However, there are lots of
sites that follow the official results (again in Belgium), so I'm not sure
what someone would gain from this, or how successful they would be.

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From:	"John Borras" <john@pensive.eu>
To:	"Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>, "eml" <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	04/27/2009 11:42
Subject:	RE: [election-services] Twitter

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I’d be interested to
hear of views on this as at least one local election official here in UK
has used Twitter to publish results which I thought was very risky.
 
John
 
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk]
Sent: 24 April 2009 13:24
To: eml
Subject: [election-services] Twitter
 
OK guys, I have done a very basic posting
of an EML 510 to Twitter. See http://boynings.co.uk/emltwitter/.
Once you have uploaded a results file (note the documentation of fields
that are used – you can’t just upload any old 510), you can see the result
on Twitter. The user is emlelections. You can also search by the ContestId
attribute in your file preceded by the “#” character.
 
Have a go, and let me know how you get
on.
 
Paul

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