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E-voting makes slow but sure progress

This content was published on Oct 18, 2009 Sixteen cantons want to make e-voting possible, but the path to implementation is complex and time-consuming because of Switzerland’s federal structure. “It will be decades before internet voting becomes nationwide and at all levels. E-voting cannot be compared with e-banking,” Hans-Urs Wili, head of a federal electronic voting project, told swissinfo.ch. “Federalism leads to a…