Error in Wired.com article about Estonian e-vote

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Today’s Wired News article about the Estonian e-vote is otherwise cool, but contains an unfortunate factual error in a quote.

Once the drivers license-like card is inserted in the reader, the voting application, viewed in Internet Explorer, (“You can’t use Firefox, that’s one big problem,” he grumbled) …

This implies the e-voting thingie only works in IE. I have no idea why Veljo Haamer to who the quote is attributed said so, but it’s not correct. The e-voting works on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms with any browser where you can sign in with your ID card. (Currently this includes IE, Safari and Firefox. I’m not sure about Opera or Konqueror.) In case if IE, voting happens in-place in the browser with the ActiveX component. For others, you get an application to download for your respective platform that does its own online communication and works outside the browser. (See how it works.)

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