Estonia to hold first national Internet election
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. E-voting will be introduced for a parliamentary election on March 4, for the first time after it was used in more limited local elections in 2005. It is a fresh sign of Estonia’s strong embrace of technology since it quit the Soviet Union in 1991. 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.
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With the option of online voting you can vote even from a space station, required that you have an electronic card reader and an ID card with a chip on it.
not a joke
Comment by Estland — February 28, 2007 @ 9:34 am