Estonia Internet election

Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip casts an online ballot in the municipal election in Tallinn, Estonia, on Monday.

Estonia will become the first country in the world to allow voter to vote over the Internet in a national parliamentary election. Computer specialists estimated 20,000 to 40,000 of 940,000 registered voters will vote via the Internet from February 26-28 ahead of the March 4 election.
Voters will put their state-issued ID card into a reader attached to a computer, which will read the electronic chip in the card and then enter two passwords.

Despite being one of the poorest nations in the European Union Estonia has set up many wireless networks allowing Estonians to use their cell phones to pay for car parking or buy bus tickets.

Back in the states we are still struggling to figure out electronic voting. It maybe several years before we try any voting online or even have the wireless networks needed to allow people to buy public transportation passes with their phones.

Only 22 states require voting machines to produce VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) as of 9/20/06. Two bills have been introduced in Congress to require a Paper Trail in future elections but they may not be able to fix it before 2008 if one of the bills pass. After the mess in 2000 and the problems in Ohio in 2004 how can we must do something about the voting system before 2008.

There is also legislation endorsed by house Speaker Nancy Pelosi that may come to the floor for debate next month to give Washington D.C. two votes in Congress, one representative in the Senate and in the House.
Sounds like a good idea but you could just go ahead and declare them a separate state instead of a territory if you give them two senators like the other 50 states get.
One second though you might have to give state rights to Puerto Rico, Guam or the Virgin Islands.
Washington D.C. is not the only territory that is not represented in Congress.