Thanks Sven. That goes along with my fears. Unless we could guarantee
somehow that using EML would protect against fake results being shown on
Twitter, and I don’t see how we could do that, I would suggest we should distance
ourselves from using that channel.
John
From: Sven Rubben [mailto:]
Sent: 27 April 2009 12:55
To: John Borras
Cc: eml; Paul Spencer
Subject: RE: [election-services] Twitter
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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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:]
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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