In 2023, more than 50 per cent of Estonian citizens voted on their computers – the Baltic nation is the only country in the world that allows online electoral voting at a national level.
Estonia was able to roll out online voting since 2005 because it had started building its digital infrastructure in the late 1990s, according to Carmen Raal, Digital Transformation Advisor at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre. In the early 2000s, the country deployed digital ID (eID) and digital signature and this DPI development has always contributed strongly to the digital economy of the country.
