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Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the rights-and-privileges dept.

composer314 writes "The Associated Press is reporting that the small European nation of Estonia has conducted large-scale voting over the Internet. From the article: "Last week, Estonia became the first country in the world to hold an election allowing voters nationwide to cast ballots over the internet. Fewer than 10,000 people, or 1 percent of registered voters, participated online in elections for mayors and city councils across the country, but officials hailed the experiment as a success." The system is built on Linux." I guess it works well when the Internet is considered a human right.

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  1. Death To women's Rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Death To women's Rights.
    Death To women's Liberties.
    Death To women's Freedoms.

  2. Re:WTF Does Estonia Have to do with Slashdot Polit by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    This politics section sucks, it's nothing but a US-bashfast site. Remember when it was supposed to be temporary? Slashdot should stick to what it does best tech news a week late. The political coverage is so clumsy and amateurish.

    I tell you what. When the US stops behaving like some pants-shitting infant who drools a lot and actually thinks very visibly mentally challenged rich-men's sons like Dubya, Prince of Fucktards, then the bashing will stop. First the US must do something sensible, like take your Evangelicals and force them to recite "evolution is not my enemy, and my holy book reads like it was written by a mentally retarded earthworm if read literally", and then something like "my country is not really God's tool on Earth", then we'll talk.

    Oh yeah, and yay for Estonia.

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  3. This is a 1984ish nigtmare in a fascist state by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    To begin with, in this Estonian "democratic" e-voting the voter's identity is linked to the vote. How else could you cancel a previous vote by voting on paper?
    Secondly, Estonia is a fascist regime akin to the former Apartheid in SA that legally discriminates on ethnic basis. A large chunk of the population, who were born and raised in Estonia are deprived of their citizenship on ethnic basis. A lagnauge spoken by approx. 80% of the population and exclusively spoken by some 15% (Russian) is not an official language. Compare that with the official status of Swedish in Finland.
    Estonia and Latvia are the shame of the EU and this e-voting of theirs is a disgrace to democracy in every possible way.

  4. Re:Isn't Estonia that "fake country" in Dilbert? by Viriatus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You dumb american, learn some geography.