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?"

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From TFA

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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...

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