Experiment of the vote in elections via mobile phone

In the Vladimir region was recently conducted an experiment on the ballot by means of cellular communication. 1 March 2009 at several polling stations in the city Raduzhny of the region during the elections to the Legislative Assembly for the first time the region was conducted an experiment on the ballot with a mobile phone. Voters sent an SMS-message to the operators of a free dedicated short number 5061, which allows you to open a special Java-application for a vote, the pre-installed in their mobile phones.

Plastic Media Company proposed solution to take part in the vote of all the subscribers of mobile network operators operating in the region. In total, the experiment was attended by over 3000 people (about one-third of all voters in Raduzhny), which showed high potential for «mobile» elections.

The initiative to conduct the experiment belonged to the Electoral Commission of the region and the territorial election commission closed administrative-territorial «city Raduzhny» with methodical, organizational and technical assistance from the Federal Center of Informatization of the CEC of Russia and the Russian Center for Learning Technologies at polling CEC of Russia. The purpose of the experiment - to study citizens' willingness to use new technology during the elections.

So who knows, perhaps in a few years to vote by sending SMS-messages will be the same actually, as voted by ballots.