Following the advanced
example of Estonia , another Baltic country, Lithuania, also
decided to allow the will of citizens via the Internet.
Recall that in Estonia for this used ID smart cards and cheap card readers, which are sold in each store for $ 8. On the Internet, 3% of all 940,000 Estonian voters voted.
Estonia became the first country in the world to hold full-fledged elections via the Internet. Yesterday, the Lithuanian government announced that it would repeat the Estonian experiment. The online voting system will be ready for the 2008 election. Already approved for voting software. The cost of developing the project was about? 580,000.