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When voting was an adventure

This content was published on Oct 18, 2003 Nowadays, election day is rather more sedate, with the country waiting for results already largely confirmed by exit polls. Civilised Geneva was notorious for political violence during elections. Votes were held in a building known as the “boîte à gifles” (roughhouse) because of the fights that broke out and the unsubtle methods of persuasion used…