Estonia is cool — voting for president using mobile phones in 2011
December 14, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under The Unwired Life
While I’m huddled in my little archipelago awaiting the presidential elections for 2010, I can’t help but read news about how Estonia will be voting for their president using mobile phones, apart from online key in systems. It’s not the technology I’m amazed at – it’s the security and confidence the people confide to that makes this a great occasion.
Raul Kaidro, who is the spokesman of the SK Certification Center in Estonia, says that it will be easy and secure: The voters will just need to previously obtain a free authorized chip. This chip will have an encrypted digital signature, which will allow them to identify themselves and vote using a text message.
The tech to implement this isn’t the hard part. In the same way that each mobile phone has a unique IMEI number and can be tracked and disabled by telco providers, the security chip works the same way. Truly though, you’d have to assign one person to a single phone.
And how much does this chip cost?
