Today at 12 noon, all 356 polling places will open. Voting outside the voter’s place of residence ended yesterday, which means that from today to Sunday, voting by paper ballot takes place only at the polling places of the electoral district of a voter’s residence. I-voting is open round the clock until 8 p.m. on Saturday, 18 October.

Today and tomorrow, all 356 polling places across Estonia are open from 12 noon until 8 p.m. On the election day, on 19 October, all polling places are open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m.  Information on the location and accessibility of polling places is available at www.valimised.ee. 

If a voter has difficulty coming to the polling place due to health or other valid reasons, they can request to vote at home. To do so, the voter must submit a written application or an oral request to the local government. Oral requests can be made by calling the telephone number designated by the local government from 12 noon to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday.

I-voting is open round the clock until 8 p.m. on Saturday, 18 October. To vote online, a voter needs to download the voter application to their computer from the website www.valimised.ee. For identification, it is necessary to have an ID-card and an ID-card reader, or a Smart-ID or Mobile-ID and PIN codes. Within 15 minutes after casting their i-vote, voter can see for themselves that their vote has reached the online ballot box and correctly expresses the will of the voter. To do this, they need to download the ‘EH kontrollrakendus’ (online vote verification application) to their phone from Google Play or App Store, or update the application to get the latest version. 

If a voter feels that the privacy of their vote was not guaranteed at the time of voting online or that they were pressured, they have the option to change their choice by either voting again online or voting by paper ballot at a polling station. This can be done also on the election day, 19 October, when only voting by paper ballot takes place.