The news was announced in Moscow on Thursday, by the head of the elections commission, Vladimir Churov, who said the mobile technology doesn’t have to be too complicated for voting.
“Using the new voting technology, one doesn’t need a special mobile phone: the main thing is that your phone supports Java applications,” he was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
However the procedure Churov described did not sound too high-tech.
“The voter is to report the number of the phone he wants to use ahead of the elections. On election day, a special program will be sent to this number. The program can only be used once, after that it will be blocked,” he explained.
Nevertheless he said that the technology will not allow voters to cast more than one ballot, and will eliminate the danger of vote rigging.
“This is an entirely different technology from the one, say, used when voting for pop singers at international contests,” Churov said.
Last December, Estonian Parliament approved a law making Estonia the first country to allow voting by mobile phone in the next parliamentary elections in 2011.
Estonians were allowed to cast Internet ballots in the 2007 parliamentary vote.
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Quelle/Source: MosNews, 09.04.2009
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