After recount, Pirates winning a seat at the local council of Ostermundigen (CH)
The Pirate Party of the Swiss Canton Berne has successfully appealed the official election result in the town of Ostermundigen, which has got its first pirate councilor. The elections in the town of Ostermundigen (population 17000) has faced a debacle that leaves a lot of question open. On the election day of September 29th, all went well according to the plan, and the final election results have been published right at 19:00. According to it, the Pirate Party has got only seven ballots that had not been altered by the voters (we are not going into much detail here, but the fact that voters have as many votes as there …