[imeikas]

In Estonia you can vote from almost anywhere if you have ID-card and working internet connection.

It's really convenient and people are using this more and more. For example last elections 15.75% of votes were made using internet. Official statistics can be found from http://vvk.ee/voting-methods-in-estonia/engindex

Also there are talks that they want to enable voting with mobile phones (there are already solutions where you can log in to banks and other websites with mobile phones).

[mahmud]

In Estonia you can vote from almost anywhere if you have ID-card and working internet connection.

By any chance, is your most recently elected president called "moot"? Is there or has there ever been a legal motion to rename the country to "4chanistan"?

I think I might know what caused your recent problems, and it's not Russia or the EU.

[imeikas]

Hehe, luckily it's not that easy to get the ID-card.

You have to prove you are Estonian citizen (or become one) and the system is secure enough that people can trust their money and sign legal documents with this system.

Actually this is one weak point in the system. If some crook gets hold of your ID-card and your PIN codes, he can sign documents that are legally binding. (For example sell your house for a dollar etc.)

[nene]

> By any chance, is your most recently elected president called "moot"?

Sorry. I don't understand this comment.

Is it trying to say, that electronic voting is by definition a failure? It doesn't seem to criticize any specific aspect of the Estonian e-voting system.

Or is it just calling names?

[lmkg]

"moot" is the screenname of the founder of 4chan, who have a tendency to spoil online polls. For example: http://www.buzzfeed.com/reddit/also-the-work-of-4chan-pic

[TheAmazingIdiot]

No, you have it all wrong.

Anonymous for President. Name change to /B/stonia

I jest, I jest :) Still, I've heard of some cool governmental tech over there. Voting, as grandparent said, along with cell-phone payment of gasoline, painless e-banking with 2 factor auth, and other cool stuff.

I also remember a pyramid that was built in that area that was on History International... I _think_ it was there, as it talked more about the architecture than the location, other than temps going from 80F to -30F.

[steveklabnik]

Yes, /e/stonia would be an... interesting place.

[bali]

This is even much better than to penalize. Why isn't there a startup helping the government? :) http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/23/the-goldmine-of-opportuniti...

[drats]

Sorry, that's completely insane even if it's open source.

[Quarrelsome]

I don't think it is. But even so as they live next door to Russia I think it's probably a good thing to try these things out and learn things the hard way.