finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.

after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers

#tech #europe #finland #elections #politics #digitalsovereignty #amazon

@parismarx Note that "election platform" is a fairly vague term. The actual voting is done with pencil and paper, and votes are counted manually by thousands of volunteers, representing each party, at local counting centres.

There is no electronic voting in Finland, and there are no short-term plans (inside ten years or so) to introduce such.