Swiss Post presented the test platform for its e-voting system on Wednesday. The platform will also be used for the pilot test in the national elections on June 18 in the cantons of St. Gallen, Thurgau and Basel-Stadt, the company said.
In St.Gallen, the Swiss abroad and five pilot communities participate, in Thurgau only the Swiss abroad. In the canton of Basel-Stadt, in addition to voters abroad, there are also people with disabilities.
The demo version of the platform is available to all interested parties at https://demo.evoting.ch/. But there may be maintenance phases, the Post said.
The voting right identification will be sent to the eligible voters by post. In addition, each e-voting voter receives a sheet with three authentication codes.
It then takes six steps to cast your vote on the e-voting platform. The vote is individually verified, encrypted and transmitted. Then the responsible election commission in the canton will be involved.
Those in charge say yes.
“The system has been extensively tested and is secure,” said Nicole Burth, head of communications services at Swiss Post. It was also ensured that no one could vote on the same bill twice. The data would also always remain in Switzerland.
Swiss Post had been developing its fully verifiable system with experts from the federal government at its IT site in Neuchâtel since 2019 and had it checked for vulnerabilities by ethical hackers.
For the first time since 2019, voters can vote electronically again as part of the federal process.
The Bundesrat then decided not to use electronic voting as a regular voting channel for the time being due to security problems. As a result, Swiss Post and the Canton of Geneva have withdrawn their previous systems.
At the beginning of March 2023, the Federal Council gave the three cantons of St.Gallen, Thurgau and Basel-Stadt basic approval for the use of Swiss Post’s improved e-voting system. At the same time, the state government also approved the electronic voting system developed by the post office.
The canton of Graubünden is expected to test the e-voting system from 2024. Other cantons will follow, requiring approval from the Federal Council.
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Source: Watson
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