The country’s first electronic election seems to be turning into a farce. Indeed, the reports are coming in of the sort of election rigging that one would expect from 3rd world countries, not France. It turned out that an "online-primary" claimed as "fraud-proof" and "ultra secure" as the Maginot Line is vulnerable to a Blizkrieg of multiple and fake voting.
The oncoming election was supposed to anoint a rising star of the moderate right – Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 39. The latter was the Party's candidate in the election for mayor of Paris in 2014. The only problem was that she abstained in the final parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage a few months ago. The industry experts pointed out that it was going to be a tight election.
Afterwards, journalists from Metronews claimed that it was easy to breach the allegedly strict security of the election and voted a few times under different names in order to prove their point.
The new approach suggested that Parisians had to vote by making a credit card payment of €3 and providing the name and address of someone on the city's electoral roll. However, Metronews journalist managed to vote 5 times in total by paying with the same credit card under different names which, by the way, included “Nicolas Sarkozy”.
This situation appeared especially tricky for the UMP Party, because the latter has been accused of election fraud earlier. The matter is that back in 2012, the UMP almost split amid allegations of ballot-stuffing and other dirty tricks in an election in order to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as the national party president. An ex-Prime Minister, François Fillon, accused his competitor, the Party Secretary General, Jean-Francois Copé, of "fraud on an industrial scale".
The oncoming election was supposed to anoint a rising star of the moderate right – Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 39. The latter was the Party's candidate in the election for mayor of Paris in 2014. The only problem was that she abstained in the final parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage a few months ago. The industry experts pointed out that it was going to be a tight election.
Afterwards, journalists from Metronews claimed that it was easy to breach the allegedly strict security of the election and voted a few times under different names in order to prove their point.
The new approach suggested that Parisians had to vote by making a credit card payment of €3 and providing the name and address of someone on the city's electoral roll. However, Metronews journalist managed to vote 5 times in total by paying with the same credit card under different names which, by the way, included “Nicolas Sarkozy”.
This situation appeared especially tricky for the UMP Party, because the latter has been accused of election fraud earlier. The matter is that back in 2012, the UMP almost split amid allegations of ballot-stuffing and other dirty tricks in an election in order to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as the national party president. An ex-Prime Minister, François Fillon, accused his competitor, the Party Secretary General, Jean-Francois Copé, of "fraud on an industrial scale".
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