Tallinn, correspondence - Following parliamentary elections in Estonia, Sunday, March 6, the government led by Prime Minister Liberal incumbent, Andrus Ansip, would in all likelihood, be extended with support from its traditional ally the Conservative party Pro Patria and Res Publica (IRL). In this country of 1.3 million inhabitants, the novelty lies rather in the multiple ways of voting, with an action taken to new technologies and promotion of electronic voting.
This year, another milestone was reached with the identification of e-voting with the SIM card of his mobile phone. Since the 2005 municipal elections, the country deserves its nickname of "e-Estonia" in politics. Electronic voting was introduced at that time and has continued to grow since.
"From 5.5% in the parliamentary elections of 2007 to 15.8% during the last municipal elections, the percentage increase of e-voters shows how Estonians are now accustomed to this practice," says Manuel J. Kripp, who runs a think tank dedicated to the Austrian electronic voting. The trend should be increasing in 2011, since as indicated Vinkel Pritt, a member of the Estonian Electoral Commission, "to 28, 80,252 electronic votes have already been registered.
SIM CARD AND ID CARD On-line voting was open from February 24 to March 2. To fulfill its duty in this way, the citizen must, as explains Tarvi Martens, designer of the Estonian e-voting, "have a computer, an electronic identity card and two PINs, one for identify early in the proceedings, the other to affix his electronic signature.
" The use of mobile phones allows the voter to simply "no longer identify with its electronic identity card but the SIM card of his mobile." At the end of the procedure, every Estonian who has opted for such a vote must go to a site managed by the Electoral Commission to drop its electronic envelope.
While in many other countries, the issue of securing such a vote would arise and trigger much debate in Estonia, "nobody questions the security of electronic voting: it would reject any form of technology for it, "said Urmo Kubar, who works in a body to study the best election practices.
"We all use an online bank, we declare our taxes online, we sign contracts online. If all these methods are safe, why do electronic voting would not it?" Surprised "he . And when asked about the possible pressures or vote-buying, the expert does not remove: "Imagine that I am forced to be bought or my voice.
That does not make much sense, because once a person leaves me, I can change this choice forced into vote again. And even when the electronic voting ends, I can still go to the polls on Sunday in the election. That vote will be traditional then taken into account. "To Manuel J. Kripp, several factors contributed to the pioneering role of Estonia in the matter:" A commitment to innovation not constrained by the potential risk, a population enamored of technology and finally the small size of the country.
"Urmo Kubar develops him, referring to Estonian history:" I'm 32, I already had two changeover, I've gone from a countries engaged in a free country with all the changes it induces. Estonians of my generation and older are so accustomed to change ... "And then adds Urmo Kubar, not without irony, common sense," why should I spend an hour queuing to vote while I can do in five minutes and take my family on Sunday waiting for results? "Experienced and refined for six years in Estonia, electronic voting will be there one day vote by phone or SMS? Tarvi Martens, the origin of the Estonian system, rejects any unnecessary technological one-upmanship.
"The vote carried exclusively by mobile is possible, but I have doubts about its relevance. Firstly, the addition of new platforms requires additional costs. And then, the complexity of the system grows, its security decreases, "he says." Additionally, we are sufficiently innovative. All News Tech Buzz has a computer, what is a vote purely on mobile phones would bring more to society? And we also think equal treatment of voters.
S is developing systems for Android, Symbian or IOS, what about people who do not have those instruments? "Finally, the design of a real vote by mobile phone could find a surprising, on other continents . 'It may interest some African countries or South-East Asia. Countries where Internet penetration rate is much lower than mobile phones, "said Manuel J.
Kripp. For more information: The report on the security of electronic voting in Estonia. 
This year, another milestone was reached with the identification of e-voting with the SIM card of his mobile phone. Since the 2005 municipal elections, the country deserves its nickname of "e-Estonia" in politics. Electronic voting was introduced at that time and has continued to grow since.
"From 5.5% in the parliamentary elections of 2007 to 15.8% during the last municipal elections, the percentage increase of e-voters shows how Estonians are now accustomed to this practice," says Manuel J. Kripp, who runs a think tank dedicated to the Austrian electronic voting. The trend should be increasing in 2011, since as indicated Vinkel Pritt, a member of the Estonian Electoral Commission, "to 28, 80,252 electronic votes have already been registered.
SIM CARD AND ID CARD On-line voting was open from February 24 to March 2. To fulfill its duty in this way, the citizen must, as explains Tarvi Martens, designer of the Estonian e-voting, "have a computer, an electronic identity card and two PINs, one for identify early in the proceedings, the other to affix his electronic signature.
" The use of mobile phones allows the voter to simply "no longer identify with its electronic identity card but the SIM card of his mobile." At the end of the procedure, every Estonian who has opted for such a vote must go to a site managed by the Electoral Commission to drop its electronic envelope.
While in many other countries, the issue of securing such a vote would arise and trigger much debate in Estonia, "nobody questions the security of electronic voting: it would reject any form of technology for it, "said Urmo Kubar, who works in a body to study the best election practices.
"We all use an online bank, we declare our taxes online, we sign contracts online. If all these methods are safe, why do electronic voting would not it?" Surprised "he . And when asked about the possible pressures or vote-buying, the expert does not remove: "Imagine that I am forced to be bought or my voice.
That does not make much sense, because once a person leaves me, I can change this choice forced into vote again. And even when the electronic voting ends, I can still go to the polls on Sunday in the election. That vote will be traditional then taken into account. "To Manuel J. Kripp, several factors contributed to the pioneering role of Estonia in the matter:" A commitment to innovation not constrained by the potential risk, a population enamored of technology and finally the small size of the country.
"Urmo Kubar develops him, referring to Estonian history:" I'm 32, I already had two changeover, I've gone from a countries engaged in a free country with all the changes it induces. Estonians of my generation and older are so accustomed to change ... "And then adds Urmo Kubar, not without irony, common sense," why should I spend an hour queuing to vote while I can do in five minutes and take my family on Sunday waiting for results? "Experienced and refined for six years in Estonia, electronic voting will be there one day vote by phone or SMS? Tarvi Martens, the origin of the Estonian system, rejects any unnecessary technological one-upmanship.
"The vote carried exclusively by mobile is possible, but I have doubts about its relevance. Firstly, the addition of new platforms requires additional costs. And then, the complexity of the system grows, its security decreases, "he says." Additionally, we are sufficiently innovative. All News Tech Buzz has a computer, what is a vote purely on mobile phones would bring more to society? And we also think equal treatment of voters.
S is developing systems for Android, Symbian or IOS, what about people who do not have those instruments? "Finally, the design of a real vote by mobile phone could find a surprising, on other continents . 'It may interest some African countries or South-East Asia. Countries where Internet penetration rate is much lower than mobile phones, "said Manuel J.
Kripp. For more information: The report on the security of electronic voting in Estonia.
Voting by smart phone was in fact already conceived by Ernst Jünger 63 years ago in his futuristic novel Heliopolis.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, he named the apparatus in that novel the phonophore - it materialized as the iPhone4 (get it?) and contained at least as many functions as the one we carry today.
More here: http://www.ernst-juenger.org/2011/02/iphone4-or-iphonophore.html
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