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Estonia seems to be a great country for these sorts of initiatives. Is it because vested interests are less of a thing there? Also being small might help, I su
by Doubl 7y ago
Estonia seems to be a great country for these sorts of initiatives. Is it because vested interests are less of a thing there?
Also being small might help, I suppose, more agile perhaps?
- Tankenstein 7y agoThe small <-> agile thing is very real. I've seen it take very little time (2-5y after conception) for big ideas to be implemented in reality, countrywide, whereas doing it somewhere like the US would be next to impossible.
- rimliu 7y agoWhat forbids to do it on a state level? City level?
- Doubl 7y agoDepends on how much local autonomy there is which in turn depends on how much taxation is raised by local government. In some countries local governments are funded from central taxation and are more or less instructed on what they can or can't do with it.
- Mirioron 7y agoDon't worry, as the EU gets more power, individual countries in Europe will be less able to implement these ideas.
- jedberg 7y agoThey only have 1.3 Million people, so it's easier logistically do to a lot of what they want and therefore it's easier to roll back things that don't work because they take less investment. Also their population is relatively young, and more willing to do these things. Lastly, their last two Prime Ministers were under 40, and one was an engineer. They've also had computer scientists in their upper ranks heading up things like the e-citizenship program and their election security.
- yosamino 7y ago> and their election security. This is by now a couple of years out of date and I do not have any idea if and how things have improved, but this particular aspect of the Estonian e-government should not be emulated. > Close inspection of videos published by election officials reveals numerous lapses in the most basic security practices > [...] > These actions indicate a dangerously inadequate level of professionalism in security administration that leaves the whole system open to attack and manipulation. https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/summary/ https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/summary/
- Scoundreller 7y agoI only read your quotes, but you could say that about paper ballot systems too.
- Mirioron 7y agoThe main reason why paper ballots are a better idea is that they're easy to understand. Almost any voter can sit there and supervise how the votes are counted, but they can't do that for online voting. The voter needs to trust experts for that.