First year

Voting from Abroad: International IDEA Handbook:

“Discussions on remote e-voting started in Estonia in 2001 and one year later, the legal provisions for it were put in place. During summer 2003 the National Electoral Committee started the e-voting project. The system includes the use of smart cards and electronic signatures (see National Election Committee 2005). The first tests of the remote e-voting system were held in late 2004 and 2005 during local referendums and elections. In March 2007 Estonia held the world’s first national Internet election. A total of 30,275 citizens (3.4 per cent) used remote e-voting which was available to Estonian voters in Estonia as well as abroad (see National Election Committee, ‘E-voting Project’).”