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TankGirl · 29-08-06, 04:21 AM

29.8.2006

First votes to be cast tomorrow

There are only 19 days left to the Swedish parliamentary election, but the first votes will be cast already tomorrow as the advance voting starts in some Swedish electoral districts. The Pirate Party members and sympathizers have been increasingly engaged in various practical aspects of the election work. They have been out to the streets to erect poster stands, to hand out flyers to bypassers and to set up their own 'valstugor' (little wooden cabins where voters can chat with party representatives) into the centrums of the larger cities. One of the most urgent tasks for the party has been to organize the distribution of ballot papers. As they are a newly established party, they get no help from the Swedish state in the task, so they have had to print hundreds of thousands of ballot papers at their own cost and to find volunteers to take them to each and every voting place around the country - a considerable challenge for a new party in a large country like Sweden.

The Green Party has started to raise its own profile in filesharing matters. It is organizing a press hearing in the Swedish Parliament about filesharing - unfortunately no other political parties have been invited so it will not be a real political debate. The threat of dropping under the 4 % vote thresold remains very real for the Greens, and they need badly the support of young voters - who would seem to be much more interested in the Pirates than in the Greens. For example demokrati.nu shows presently 3.7% support for the Green Party while Pirate Party has 16.5 % support there. Hardly anyone in the Pirate Party believes they could get even 10% of the votes in the actual election but getting that crucial 4% seems possible although by no means sure. NordicBet gives still only 1:15 odds for the Pirates to make it, and the 'official' opinion polls show virtually no support for the Pirates. On the other hand they do well in all online polls, and their membership keeps growing steadily, being already clearly larger than that of the Greens.

29-08-06, 04:21 AM	#80
TankGirl Madame Comrade Join Date: May 2000 Location: Area 25 Posts: 5,587	29.8.2006 First votes to be cast tomorrow There are only 19 days left to the Swedish parliamentary election, but the first votes will be cast already tomorrow as the advance voting starts in some Swedish electoral districts. The Pirate Party members and sympathizers have been increasingly engaged in various practical aspects of the election work. They have been out to the streets to erect poster stands, to hand out flyers to bypassers and to set up their own 'valstugor' (little wooden cabins where voters can chat with party representatives) into the centrums of the larger cities. One of the most urgent tasks for the party has been to organize the distribution of ballot papers. As they are a newly established party, they get no help from the Swedish state in the task, so they have had to print hundreds of thousands of ballot papers at their own cost and to find volunteers to take them to each and every voting place around the country - a considerable challenge for a new party in a large country like Sweden. The Green Party has started to raise its own profile in filesharing matters. It is organizing a press hearing in the Swedish Parliament about filesharing - unfortunately no other political parties have been invited so it will not be a real political debate. The threat of dropping under the 4 % vote thresold remains very real for the Greens, and they need badly the support of young voters - who would seem to be much more interested in the Pirates than in the Greens. For example demokrati.nu shows presently 3.7% support for the Green Party while Pirate Party has 16.5 % support there. Hardly anyone in the Pirate Party believes they could get even 10% of the votes in the actual election but getting that crucial 4% seems possible although by no means sure. NordicBet gives still only 1:15 odds for the Pirates to make it, and the 'official' opinion polls show virtually no support for the Pirates. On the other hand they do well in all online polls, and their membership keeps growing steadily, being already clearly larger than that of the Greens. __________________ My Blog: Reflections on P2P Revolution