The biggest scandal of the recent election – the serious technological glitches in organising the vote – should, in my view, be seen in a wider context. More important than whether this mess ought to be followed by dismissals at the Central Election Commission and/or the State Digital Development Agency is the fact that it raises legitimate questions about the much-invoked notion of digital governance as a whole. Nobody came to any harm because of the delays in the election process, yet if the systems we are supposed to rely on in the so-called hour of need are just as weak, then it is no laughing matter at all. It may turn out that the claims by officials, and in part by experts too, that Latvia is a thoroughly capable country in the IT field are an illusion.

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