Twitter users say law is archaic in electronic age
(NEWSER) - In Canada, reporting election results before the last polls close can result in a $26,000 fine—but this year, Twitter users threw caution to the wind. At first, some used code to hint at results, referring, for example, to the New Democrats’ orange color: “My orange soda is fizzy,” noted one tweet with the hash tag “#notaresult.” Another wondered: “If I used to have three oranges, and someone gave me four more oranges, would I go to jail?” More»