September 1st 2017 the Norwegian government issued a regulation that mandated that all votes in the upcoming parliamentary election (10 days later) had to be counted manually at least once. This talk describes the personal Twitter campaign that preceded it and how the public and the media have power and influence when they join forces.

1. November 4th is Aaron Swartz Day #pdftribute
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2. Trust, Elections and Twitter
How to ignore someone so incredibly loudly
it becomes conspicuous
FSCONS 2017
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3. Tweeting Into The Void
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4. Patricia Aas
Programmer - mainly in C++ and Java
Currently : Vivaldi Technologies
Previously : Cisco Systems, Knowit, Opera Software
Master in Computer Science
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5. So who are you? And which election? Small recap
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6. Me: 7 weeks in,
After basically “winning”
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8. Power & Influence
Powerful : Invisibility
Treat the Less Powerful as if they are invisible by
ignoring them
Powerful : Appropriation
The Powerful person steals the ideas of the Less
Powerful person
Less Powerful : Ghostwriting
The Less Powerful gives ideas to a more Powerful to
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9. What Happened?
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11. Nothing Happens
I Keep On Tweeting To Myself
(12 days)
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15. Nothing Happens
I Keep On Tweeting To Myself
(11 days)
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16. August 8th - VG

18. What Is She Doing????!!!
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19. You Need A Security
“Hotline”
security@example.com
Symbiotic relationship
Be polite
Be grateful
Be professional
Be efficient and transparent
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20. Nothing Happens
I Keep On Tweeting To Myself
(16 days)
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21. The (Research) Thread
August 24th
I Tweet as I Read
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22. The Book About EVA
Scanning
51 page pdf document
Response to two requests under the
Norwegian
Freedom of Information Act
24th of August

24. Seriously?? Nobody Cares????!!!
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25. The (Frustration) Thread
Saturday, August 26th
4:02 - 4:22 pm
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29. TV, Newspapers, Radio & Internet
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31. Is the count and the recount done by the same system?
Director Bjørn Berg: “We can’t 100% exclude that possibility”
The counts described as being in different places, can they really
all be in the same place?
Director Bjørn Berg: “Theoretically your assessment is correct”
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32. Reddit & Hacker News
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33. I’m Exhausted, Scared and Intimidated
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34. And Nothing Really Happens
- I Talk to any Journalist I can
- I Keep On Explaining Elections
(over the course of 6 days)
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35. On my way to another TV
interview
Friday, September 1st
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39. PST Decided to Change the Tone
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41. from the media's point
of view it's over
(But I’m Still Tweeting…)
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42. Because I Still Had Questions!
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43. But I’m Tweeting Into The Void Again...
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44. Foreign Companies are
Setting Up Our Ballot
counting?
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46. And how would we discover
and broadcast an election
manipulation?
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48. No Answer
(4 days pass)
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49. … I’m Exhausted and Depressed
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51. I Had Sent Some of These
Questions To KMD by Email 2
days Before the Regulation
On August 30th
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52. No Answer From KMD
I Repeatedly Ask for a Reply on
Twitter
(10 days pass)
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53. The Vulnerability of Pride (or Lies & Politics)
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54. Is the count and the recount done by the same system?
Director Bjørn Berg: “We can’t 100% exclude that possibility”
The counts described as being in different places, can they really
all be in the same place?
Director Bjørn Berg: “Theoretically your assessment is correct”
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Remember?

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Email From KMD - Friday September 8th

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Email From KMD

58. Lack of Power & Influence
Powerful : Invisibility
Treat the Less Powerful as if they are invisible by
ignoring them
Powerful : Appropriation
The Powerful person steals the ideas of the Less
Powerful person
Less Powerful : Ghostwriting
The Less Powerful gives ideas to a more Powerful to
Get Things Done@pati_gallardo

59. Demanding Trust and Being Trustworthy
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60. So who is
Auditing the
Election?
I’m starting to think it’s nobody
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63. So who is
Auditing the
Election?
I’m starting to think it’s nobody
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64. So What Does It All Mean?
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65. Elections:
Trust Is Relative
It’s a paranoid system by design.
It has no trust so that it can be trusted.
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66. Friend or Foe, it’s hard to tell
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67. Breaking Out Of The Void Requires A Community
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68. We’ve Got This! (If we work together)
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70. Vivaldi Swag
Patricia Aas, Vivaldi Technologies
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