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Internet voting in Estonia

Internet voting in Estonia. Epp Maaten Councillor of the Elections Department Chancellery of the Riigikogu. e-Estonia. Population: 1.35 Mio Everyday Internet usage (15-74 years old): 54% Households with a computer: 40% 81% home computers connected to the Internet. Why Internet-voting?.

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Internet voting in Estonia

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  1. Internet voting in Estonia Epp Maaten Councillor of the Elections Department Chancellery of the Riigikogu

  2. e-Estonia • Population: 1.35 Mio • Everyday Internet usage (15-74 years old): 54% • Households with a computer: 40% • 81% home computers connected to the Internet

  3. Why Internet-voting? • The use of digital channels is steadily widening. • eID card, that most of voters possess, enables secure authentication • Political agreement to introduce Internet voting: • - In 2002 the legislative basis for Internet voting was created. • To increase turnout

  4. Started in 1997 Act on personal identification documents: Feb 1999 Digital Signature Act: March 2000 First card issued: Jan 2002 900 000 cards issued: Feb 2006 eID card roll-out 65% of population IDcard Project

  5. Voters’ authentication withID-cards • Compulsory for all residents • Contains: • Personal data file • Certificate for authentication • Certificate for digital signature

  6. First Internet voting • In October 2005 Estonia had the first pan-national Internet Voting with binding results • ~ 80% of voters had a chance to vote via Internet • ~2% of voters used that possibility

  7. System architecture

  8. Envelope scheme

  9. Electronic re-vote and the priority of traditional voting • Repeated e-voting is allowed - only last e-ballot is counted • Manual re-voting is allowed • In order to avoid voting under coercionre-voting is • allowedduring advance voting period

  10. To vote via Internet voter needs: an Estonian ID card with valid certificates and PINcodes Computer used for voting must have: a smart card reader a driver for ID card (free to download from page www.id.ee/installer)

  11. I Website for voting www.valimised.ee www.valimised.ee

  12. II Identification • Put your card into card reader • Insert PIN 1 ****

  13. III Ballot completion • Choose a candidate

  14. IV Authentication • Confirm your choice • Insert PIN 2 *****

  15. V Confirmation

  16. E-votes counted 9287 E-vote turnout (e-votes/votes) 1,85 % Advance votes among all votes 24 % E-votes among advance votes 8 % E-voters by gender: women 45.7% men 54.3% E-voters by age: -29 27.7% 30-5962.4% 60 - 9.9% Statistics

  17. Where Internet voters cast their ballots A.H. Trechsel, F. Breuer, E-Voting in the 2005 local elections in Estonia, http://www.ega.ee/public/Trechsel_17.02.2006.ppt

  18. Internet voting frequency duringvoting period Estonian National Electoral Committee https://www.vvk.ee

  19. Subjective reasons for not using e-voting A.H. Trechsel, F. Breuer, E-Voting in the 2005 local elections in Estonia, http://www.ega.ee/public/Trechsel_17.02.2006.ppt

  20. Subjective reasons for choosing e-voting A.H. Trechsel, F. Breuer, E-Voting in the 2005 local elections in Estonia, http://www.ega.ee/public/Trechsel_17.02.2006.ppt

  21. Impacts on choosing e-voting over voting at polling station: Trust in e-voting Sufficient computer knowledge Age, gender, income, education do not have a significant impact E-voting is politically neutral Conclusions of the survey

  22. Internet voting is just an additional way of voting. It widens accessibility. It takes time to change voters’ habits and attitudes and to increase the turnout. Internet votingbrings people closer to the information society. Existence of a reliable and secure authentication system is vital. Internet voting is there to stay. Lessons learnt

  23. Further information Homepage of Estonian National Electoral Committee: http://www.vvk.ee/engindex.html

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