Canada’s 70-year-old law to control the release of voting results on election night has again stumbled in the age of the Internet.

Within minutes of polls closing on Canada’s Atlantic Coast on Tuesday bloggers were making the results known in parts of the country were voting was still going on.

“I believe the polls have just closed in Newfoundland so gentlemen, to your mark, ready, go,” read a posting from a blogger writing under the moniker The Surly Beaver.

Read more (Reuters)

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