Electronic voting in Estonia

Electronic voting in Estonia gained popularity in 2001 with the "e-minded" coalition government. In 2005, it became the first nation to hold legally binding general elections over the Internet with their pilot project for municipal elections.^[1] Estonian election officials declared the electronic voting system a success and found that it withstood the test of real-world use.^[2]

Internet voting was also used in the 2007 Estonian parliamentary election, another world first.^[3] In 2023 parliamentary elections for the first time more than half of the total votes were cast over the internet.^[4]