Estonian e-voting 2009 application now available to public to test their setup
Estonia is going to have two national e-votes this year. First for European Parliament, second for municipalities. I am going to vote over the Internet on both occasions.
The first e-vote is in about a month. Today, they published the application for public, so that people can test whether their computers, ID card readers and ID card readers work correctly. I tried it out, of course. See the screenshot walkthrough here. All worked well, apart from one strange warning when opening the disk image with the application. I hope they fix it.
Read also my longer rant about ID cards, e-voting and the associated topics. Sadly, many so-called “e-voting” around the world in other countries have been complete jokes or disasters, and have undermined the validity of the concept in the eyes of the public.
I continue to believe that correctly, securely implemented Internet-based voting (or derivatives thereof, such as mobile etc) is currently rare outside Estonia, but is going to happen sooner or later anyway, and Estonia serves as a model of this.
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