{"id":1855,"date":"2008-12-11T08:31:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2008-12-11T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:31:46","slug":"estonia-approves-voting-via-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/estonia-approves-voting-via-mobile-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Estonia approves voting via mobile phone. (Not exactly.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cfarivar\/20138875\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/15\/20138875_19e1c1ad2c_m_d.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"20\" hspace=\"20\"\/><\/a>The Estonian parliament (pictured) has just approved a bill to let Estonian citizens vote via their mobile phone. This makes the country the first country in the world to do so, and comes about 20 months after Estonia held its first nation-wide election where the electorate could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/news\/2007\/03\/72846\">cast their ballots online<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Mobile phone voting, which likely will come via a new secure SIM card to be used in conjunction with the country&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/id.ee\/\">digital ID card<\/a> system, will take effect in the 2011 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/world\/20081211\/118809359.html\">Russian News and Information Agency<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/krishaamer\/\">Kris Haamer<\/a> points me to a TV ad previewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wHCvf9KA2dU\">EMT&#8217;s mobile voting system<\/a> that aired about 20 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Update (Dec 17.): I spoke with Silver Meikar, an Estonian MP, who told me that this actually isn&#8217;t quite mobile phone voting. In fact, this is using Estonia&#8217;s digital ID card infrastructure to use your phone as an ID tool instead of your ID card and reader. You still need a computer and an Internet connection to vote online, but you now can just have your phone instead of your ID card. So, not as sexy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/155490\/estonia_to_use_mobile_phones_to_simpify_evoting.html\">IDG News Service<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian parliament (pictured) has just approved a bill to let Estonian citizens vote via their mobile phone. This makes the country the first country in the world to do so, and comes about 20 months after Estonia held its first nation-wide election where the electorate could cast their ballots online. Mobile phone voting, which likely will come via a new secure SIM card to be used in conjunction with the country&#8217;s digital ID card system, will take effect in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","category-mobile-phones","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}