If there was actual influence by games, one could argue that playing WoW postponed his actions by a couple of years. You could even argue that if WoW had more fresh content, this may not have happened. Start a revolution? Not during a raid.

Most urbanized? Not really. High, yes, but not the highest, even when not counting city states, island nations and weird places like Belgium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country

Hey, they wanted cheap, they got cheap. We offered them our dike product as well, but they weren't interested.

I don't really see the problem of maintaining anonymity. They way it works here: all citizens allowed to vote get an invitation to do so. This invitation also specifies which voting office to go to (there are procedures to change this to another or even any office, and procedures to have others vote for you). On voting day, you present yourself at the voting office with the invitation and ID, you're checked against a list, and you receive the voting slip. You fill out the slip in a private area, and drop it in the container, as is pretty much common around the world.

What, what? You *dont* require ID to vote? How do they keep track of who is allowed to vote (minors, (illegal) immigrants, convicts)?

One issue I have with the concept of Open Source as the solution for automated voting, is that it really limits the amount of people knowledgeable enough to interpret the code. There's also the question of code vs what's actually running, to some degree. My granny is perfectly able to monitor the manual voting process (and regularly does so), but I don't really see her reading through source code.