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Did Little Bobby Tables migrate to Sweden?

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Did Little Bobby Tables migrate to Sweden?
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Posted by Jonas Elfström
12 hours ago

As you may have heard, we’ve had a very close election here in Sweden. Today the Swedish Election Authority published the hand written votes. While scanning through them I happened to notice

R;13;Hallands län;80;Halmstad;01;Halmstads västra valkrets;0904;Söndrum 4;pwn DROP TABLE VALJ;1

The second to last field1 is the actual text on the ballot2. Could it be that Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has migrated to Sweden?

Someone even tried to get a JavaScript in there:

R;14;Västra Götalands län;80;Göteborg;03;Göteborg, Centrum;0722;Centrum, Övre Johanneberg;(Script src=http://hittepa.webs.com/x.txt);1

I’m pleased to see that they published the list as text and not HTML. This hacker/joker voter seems to think they “censored” his vote/script. I’m not so sure about that, a more reasonable explanation is that they couldn’t enter brackets, quotation marks, and so on.

There are also a couple of URL:s to online retailers and three votes on a conspiracy friendly site. I chose not to link to any of those.

This time the pen and paper scripting attack failed. Let’s hope it stays that way.

PS. Someone noticed that there are no votes from Stockholm in there right now (2010-10-24). I asked the Swedish Election Authority about that and it turns out that The County Administrative Board (Länsstyrelsen) gets two months to register all the handwritten votes. There’s a good chance that those will bring more attempts like the ones above. DS.

1The name of the party, not a name of a person.
2Almost all Swedish voters use the preprinted ballots but you are allowed to write your own by hand.

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