On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Tony Bowden <[email protected]> wrote: > Francis Davey wrote: >>> The last parliamentary elections here used e-voting very successfully, >> With 2.3% of the population casting their votes electronically. > Or 5.4% of all votes cast. I'm not claiming that it's anything close to > ubiquitous, but even in a small country it's a significant number - tens > of thousands of people voted this way (and more than three times as many > as in the council elections two years previously, when e-voting was > first introduced.)
To update a really old thread with some more recent statistics... The trend towards internet voting in Estonia is continuing at a fast pace. In the European Parliament elections earlier this year, i-voting was up to 14% (and Estonia was one of the only countries which had increased voter turnout in general, largely attributed to the ease of i-voting compared to the general can'tbebotheredness in this sort of election generally). And, even more significantly, in the recent municipal elections in Tallinn, 44% of votes were made online: http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/480270 (Google Translate does a reasonable job if you don't read Estonian ;) Again, the numbers are comparatively small, but that's still over 100,000 people out of just under 250,000. Tony _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
