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Internet-voting (i-voting) offers an alternative to in-person voting in polling stations. Assumingly, worldwide it is most frequently used in Estonia, it having been available there to all voters and all types of elections since 2005. About 44% of the votes were cast online in the Estonian parliamentary elections of 2019. Until the beginning of 2019, i-voting was also offered in a number of cantons in Switzerland, but has been (temporarily) suspended as none of the applied i-voting systems fulfilled the legal requirements. In the same year, a popular initiative was started to collect signatures to put a moratorium on i-voting in Switzerland. In France, citizens abroad have been allowed to use remote i-voting in legislative elections (but not in the presidential vote) since 2012. For the 2017 legislative elections, however, online voting abroad was suspended because of concerns about cyber-attacks. Armenia allows only diplomatic and military staff posted abroad (and their families) to vote via the Internet.