In its report of 16 May 2011, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) found Estonia's March 6, 2011 parliamentary elections, including the Internet voting, as trustworthy, although several elections monitors have pointed out a series of procedural and technical issues.

"The Riigikogu elections were conducted in an environment characterized by respect for fundamental rights and freedoms and a high degree of trust in the impartiality of the election administration. Election stakeholders expressed confidence in the overall process, including the Internet voting. Voters had an opportunity to make an informed choice among a field of candidates representing a variety of political alternatives," is ODIHR's conclusion.

The organ­i­sa­tion rec­om­mends to sup­ple­ment and spec­ify the leg­is­la­tion gov­ern­ing e-voting. OSCE also rec­om­mends Esto­nia to doc­u­ment more thor­oughly dif­fer­ent processes involv­ing e-voting and to increase public’s aware­ness of dif­fer­ent nuances of e-voting. Accord­ing to the report, e-voting has in gen­eral received high level of con­fi­dence from the pub­lic and has been organ­ised in a pro­fes­sional and secure man­ner by the Government’s Elec­tions Committee.

The organ­i­sa­tion noted that the Parliamentary elec­tions were car­ried out in com­pli­ance with the inter­na­tional stan­dards and agree­ments and by involv­ing all par­ties in equal man­ner. OSCE esti­mated that Eston­ian Elec­tions Act allows for demo­c­ra­tic elec­tions to be car­ried out and val­ued highly the organ­i­sa­tional part of the elections.

Read the full report (PDF).