The World's First National Internet Election

InternetVoting writes "Expanding on the limited 2005 Internet voting pilot successes, the small European nation of Estonia will become the first country to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet. Fresh off the news of France's successful primary election using Internet voting and the announcement of 12 new UK election pilots, is Europe leaving the U.S. behind?"

Comments

Well..

[Anonymous Coward]

As soon as "internet voting" has been reviewed to see how well a rigged election can be performed, the U.S will switch, too.

Re:Well..

[darkpixel2k]

is Europe leaving the U.S. behind?

They will be leaving the US behind...right up until their "secure" internet election elects "That goatse guy"...

Nice of them to let the 1337 h4xx0rs vote

[echinda]

Population of Estonia: 1,324,333

Number of votes that will be cast in next Estonian election: 13,371,337

Re:Paper trail? Independent audits?

[Professor_UNIX]

Don't all the qualms with electronic, paperless voting apply here?

If it works for American Idol I don't see why it wouldn't work for national elections. Just imagine, the more you text message a particular number the more votes your candidate would get! How cool would that be?

Re:Whoa...

[MrCopilot]

I should point out that Canada doesn't have voting over the net either. Neither does most of the free world. [and yes, I'm Canadian...]

Thanks for pointing that out , I guess the words World's First in the headline was not enough. [You have my sympathy.]