After pioneering e-vote, Estonians head to ballot box to elect lawmakers
AFP, March, 2007
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TALLINN (AFP) — Estonians streamed to polling stations Sunday to cast traditional paper-ballot votes in the EU newcomer's parliamentary election, the first in the world to have allowed voting by Internet.
Despite a shroud of fog over the capital and snow and slush around the rest of the country, around one-third of the Baltic state's 940,000 eligible voters had made their choice by noon, three hours after polling stations had opened at 9:00 am (0700 GMT), election officials said.
"A total of 288,906 voters had cast their votes by midday, making up 32.3 percent of all eligible voters," the election commission said in a statement.
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In the last parliamentary elections, in 2003 -- the year before Estonia joined the EU -- turnout at midday was 28.6 percent.
Since then, Estonia's economy has powered ahead, growing by 11.5 percent last year, and the Baltic ...
