[LINK] Estonia to hold online elections

Stewart Fist stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au
Mon Feb 26 10:33:19 AEDT 2007


 
> "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...Computer specialists have estimated 20,000 to 40,000 of
> 940,000 registered voters will vote via the Internet from February 26 to
> 28, ahead of the March 4 election day. ..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 why not try such a system in a country that has a long record of running
elections in a way that the results can be predetermined by the authorities.

Keep up the old traditions, I say.



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