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<html newsdate="2017-03-02">
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<title>Freedomvote.nl helps voters compare party positions on digital freedom in upcoming Dutch election</title>
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<h1>Freedomvote.nl helps voters compare party positions on digital freedom in upcoming Dutch election</h1>
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<p>Today FSFE Netherlands, NLnet, ISPConnect, and Open
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Source & Overheid launch <a
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href="https://freedomvote.nl">Freedomvote.nl</a> to help inform voters in
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the upcoming Dutch general election, which is held on 15 March 2017.
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Freedomvote.nl provides guidance to voters on the topic of digital freedom,
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based on eight questions.</p>
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<p>The website allows voters to compare their political views with those of
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the parties participating in the election. The questions cover the topics of
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Free and Open Source Software, open standards, open data, open science, open
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education, surveillance, net neutrality and software patents. Voters can
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answer these questions for themselves, save them, and then compare the
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results with the answers from the political parties. Descriptions are added
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to all the questions, to provide context.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Freedomvote fills a gap for the Dutch elections." explains
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Nico Rikken from FSFE Netherlands. "As only a couple of parties have a
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formal stance on themes of digital freedom, Freedomvote encourages parties
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to take a stance, so voters who care about digital freedoms know what
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they'll be voting for."</p></blockquote>
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<p>Unlike its <a href="https://freedomvote.ch/">Swiss predecessor</a>, the
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Dutch Freedomvote model represents the political parties rather than
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individual candidates, and thus reflects the strong party orientation in the
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Netherlands' political system. Freedomvote.nl is based on Free Software
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source code developed for Freedomvote.ch. Further software improvements are
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in the works, intended for others wanting to run their own Freedomvote in the
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future.</p>
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<tag key="freedomvote">Freedomvote</tag>
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<tag key="policy">policy</tag>
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<tag key="nl">Dutch</tag>
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<tag key="ayc">Ask Your Candidates</tag>
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<tag key="campaigns">Campaigns</tag>
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</tags>
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