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Texting Democracy: Estonia to Vote by Mobile Phone in 2011

Dec 12 2008 - 2:30pm

American Idol may let you text in your vote, but Estonia will be the first actual country to implement voting by cell phone [1]. Technologically-savvy citizens will place chips into their cell phones, that authenticate identifications, before they cast their ballots for the 2011 parliamentary election.

Estonia has already used [2] online voting, without any major security breaches. In order to prevent coercion that might happen when people vote in private, Estonians can still cancel out their e-votes [3] with a paper ballot. An independent study found that the new vote-by-phone procedure should go off without any manipulation or malfunctions.

Would you like to see more access to democracy from voting options like Internet or phone voting? I guess we'll be looking to E-stonia to see how it's done!
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