E-voting test authorised in fourth Swiss canton
The Swiss government has granted canton Graubünden a basic licence for trials with electronic voting in federal votes. The authorisation is valid for a limited period until the vote on March 8, 2026.
At the same time, the Federal Chancellery has approved e-voting trials for the vote on March 3, 2024, it said on Wednesday.
In the first phase, voters in six pilot municipalities in Graubünden can register to vote electronically. For the first vote on March 3, 2024, the canton is requesting the approval of 12,000 voters.
Together with the voters who can vote electronically in cantons Basel City, St Gallen and Thurgau, around 77,000 voters are expected to be admitted to e-voting for the vote on March 3. This corresponds to around 1.4% of all Swiss voters.
+ Voters and cantons enthusiastic about ‘successful’ e-voting trial
Graubünden is using the same Swiss Post e-voting system that is already in use in Basel City, St Gallen and Thurgau, according to the press release. The cantons and the Federal Chancellery have given a positive assessment of the use of this system to date, for example in the federal elections on October 22.
This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. You can find them here.
If you want to know more about how we work, have a look here, and if you have feedback on this news story please write to english@swissinfo.ch.
In compliance with the JTI standards
More: SWI swissinfo.ch certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here. Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.