Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė is sceptical about the possibility of introducing online voting in Lithuania in the nearest future, stressing the importance of security and confidentiality when voting.
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The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) on Wednesday presented a feasibility study on online voting in elections and referendums, and suggested delaying its introduction.
French officials and Baltic experts debated France’s electoral case study, as the Lithuanian parliament considered diaspora’s internet voting bill this week, and France just completed the second round of municipal elections.
Lithuania’s Seimas on Tuesday allowed the country’s voters staying abroad to vote online in elections during the pandemic.
Digital and electoral policy experts from the three Baltic states gathered virtually to exchange recommendations on mitigating the Covid-19 impact on election planning and discuss digital solutions, including internet voting (i-voting).
The Lithuanian government discarded on Wednesday the idea of introducing online voting in elections.
Lithuania's State Security Department is skeptical about the possibility to introduce electronic voting, says the department's director Darius Jauniškis.
The Lithuanian parliament has opened its autumn session. Here is a look at the session's potentially most-contentious bills:
Society must be ready for online voting - Estonian president after meeting Grybauskaitė.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the government, which plans to introduce online voting in elections, will seek to ensure that the system is "absolutely secure".
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that online voting in the country would fail to ensure confidentiality and security.
Lithuania's government announced plans on Thursday to introduce online voting by the end of its 2016-2020 term in office. BNS Lithuania provides you the key questions and answers:
Lithuania's government will seek to legalize this year the creation of an online voting system, which should be developed by mid-2019, shows the implementation plan of the governmental program published on Thursday.
Lithuanians residing abroad can now sign up at the Central Electoral Commission's website to be mailed ballots for October's general elections.
The Ministry of Justice says it will keep pushing a bill on online voting after the Lithuanian parliament rejected a piece of legislation on the principles of online voting in March.
The Lithuanian parliament has rejected a bill that would have laid down the rules for online voting.
A bill on online voting is being presented to the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday. The piece of legislation, drafted by the Ministry of Justice, lays out the basics of online voting without actually introducing the measure yet.
