Estonia: The World’s First National Internet Election
Here is a scoop from News.com via Slashdot about the world’s very first Internet election and it will be in former Soviet Baltic State of Estonia.
The Baltic state of Estonia plans to become the world’s first country to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet next month–with a little help from the forest king.
E-voting will be introduced for a parliamentary election on March 4, for the first time after it was used in more limited local elections in 2005. It is a fresh sign of Estonia’s strong embrace of technology since it quit the Soviet Union in 1991.
The e-voting system was tested earlier this week, including the chance to choose the “king of the forest”. Voters could pick an animal from 10 candidates, including moose, deer and boars.
Estonia is also home to the uber-popular Internet voice calling solution called Skype. Looks like a lot of Interesting things happening in Estonia. While in the Philippines, we are bickering about Electronic Counting machines. In my book, any system that provides incremental improvement is better than no improvement at all. I also believe that security is just a matter of adding inconviniences (more commonly called safe guards).
February 28th, 2007 at 8:39 am
With the option of online voting you can vote even from a space station, required that you have an electronic card reader and an ID card with a chip on it.
not a joke
February 28th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Excellent! Maybe if there were an estonian citizen in the international space station right now. It would have made additional history by being the first voter from space!