cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11709471
Many political parties are allowing Cloudflare to block some demographics of voters from seeing election info on their own candidates. These political parties are running exclusive websites:
- PS/Vooruit (Socialist / Parti Socialiste [fr/nl])
- Défi (previously part of the MR, now more at the center [fr])
- CD & V (center / Christen Democratisch en Vlaams [nl])
- Groen (Green Party [nl])
- Open VLD (liberal [nl])
Effectively they are operating in an anti-democratic fashion. Open and inclusive access to election info is paramount to democracy.
The political parties who are running inclusive websites are (quite ironically) the right-wing parties. And funnily enough, some of the right-wing parties actually have an English version of their website as well. This defies their historic reputation as being relatively xenophobic. If voting purely on the basis of digital rights and digital inclusion fostered by their website implementation, the right-wingers are the clear winners here.
Voting left entails supporting parties that suppress election info from some demographics of people. Voting right is a non-starter on general principle (e.g. climate denial). Voting is mandatory but there is said to be a “none of the above” option.
(edit) OTOH, the French green party (ecolo.be) has an open website. Perhaps that’s a decent way to vote.