Voting electronically is one option how ID-cards make people's lives easier.

Almost 10 per cent of Estonian voters cast their votes electronically in this year’s local councils’ elections, which is an absolute record in this tiny Northern European country.

104,415 people gave their votes electronically, using the country’s innovative ID-cards for voting. That is about 9.6% of the total voters in the local councils’ election.

In European Parliament election, in June this year, only 58,669 people gave their votes electronically.

Estonian electronic voting is possible thanks to the ID-cards which bear an electronic microchip. People who want to vote electronically – i.e. without leaving their computers – have to stick the card into a smartcard reader, type in their secret PIN for authentication, make a selection in their constituency, and then confirm the vote with another secret PIN for signing. ID-cards cannot be used for voting – or any other such activity – without those PINs.

Estonia is one of the few countries in the world where digital signature bears the same legal power as a handwritten one.

Local councils’ election day is this Sunday, 18th October. E-voters had to cast their votes from last Thursday until today.

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