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Electronic Voting in Estonia

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Electronic Voting and Democracy

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The Republic of Estonia has been, and is being, widely credited to be a pioneer in e-governance and especially e-democracy, with headlines such as ‘Estonia: 10 Years from Communism to Advanced e-Democracy!’1 It has frequently been expected, too, that Estonia will be the leading country for e-voting, having introduced it already for the national elections of 2003.2 However, in the latest changes of the respective laws, the Estonian Parliament has voted for e-democracy, not for the immediate future, but with a delay of implementation until the year 2005. Still, to our knowledge, what follows is the first and so far only investigation into the first European case of a country that has actually passed overall e-voting laws.

The views expressed in this article are in no way to be construed to express the opinion of the Minister or Ministry of Justice; interpretive judgments generally, but especially those of political parties and party behaviour, are to be attributed to the first author only. We would like to thank Taavi Annus, Alo Heinsalu, Rainer Kattel, Helger Lipmaa and Vello Pettai for their very helpful comments and suggestions, but naturally we did not follow all of them. Statements, state of legislation and weblinks of this chapter are valid as of 25 May 2002.

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Drechsler, W., Madise, Ü. (2004). Electronic Voting in Estonia. In: Kersting, N., Baldersheim, H. (eds) Electronic Voting and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523531_6

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