Estonia Plans Mobile Phone Voting By 2011
December 13, 2008 | Faysal | Comments 0
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Voter lethargy is a problem for most democratic nations and, while we love our technology, most countries still require that you trudge to your local voting station to vote for whatever politician has lied to you best. Estonia, however, is planning to overcome the problem with a very ambitious plan to let voters text in their votes via mobile phones. And it’s not just a concept as Parliament has approved a law that will make Estonia the first country to allow voting via SMS in the 2011 elections.
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About the Author: Faysal Chowdhury, a Civil Engineer at day and an intelligent tech blogger at night. Stationed in Dhaka, Bangladesh he is has been with HotCellularPhone.com since the beginning, dated back to 2008. After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in 2006, he started working as a Civil Engineer for Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) but his tech savvy mind always kept up with the mobile world and keeping everyone updated as well.
