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The World's First National Internet Election

Posted by samzenpus on from the vote-through-the-tubes dept.

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?"

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  1. Congrats! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I would like to take this opportunity to pre-emptively congratulate CowboyNeal on his appointment as Estonia's new prime minister.

    The voting will take place by people putting their state-issued ID card, which has an electronic chip on it, into a reader attached to a computer and then entering two passwords.

    And, to follow up, I'd like to kick off a flamewar by pointing out that yes, Estonia is leaving the USA behind, particularly as the USA is crippled by paranoia over ID cards while Estonia is using them to advance democracy.

  2. From TFA by xixax · · Score: 2, Informative

    The voting will take place by people putting their state-issued ID card, which has an electronic chip on it, into a reader attached to a computer and then entering two passwords
    Unless all Estonian PCs come with a state ID card reader, this sounds like using the Internet as a transport for tradtional electronic voting rather than "Internet Voting". A government agency uses something like ssh to transport confidential data, yawn...

    Xix.

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  3. UK? Failed TRIALS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    What he neglects to mention is the last trials in electronic voting in the UK were a dismal FAILURE.