GenevaLunch » electronic voting http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Swiss Abroad push for electronic votehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/swiss-abroad-push-for-electronic-vote/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/swiss-abroad-push-for-electronic-vote/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:41:53 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61063 GenevaLunch.com LUGANO, TICINO – The annual congress of the 700,000 Swiss who live abroad, often referred to as the Fifth Switzerland, is putting its weight behind a push for more widespread electronic voting. Some 135,000 Swiss abroad are registered to vote, but the group argues that more citizens abroad will register and vote if electronic voting [...]

Swiss Abroad push for electronic vote © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/swiss-abroad-push-for-electronic-vote/feed/ 0 Swiss commission underway, to push electronic votinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/22/swiss-commission-underway-to-push-electronic-voting/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/22/swiss-commission-underway-to-push-electronic-voting/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:01:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60873 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – A new federal commission to encourage and develop electronic voting throughout Switzerland has met for the first time. Four federal officials and eight from cantons will oversee the gradual expansion of electronic voting. Cantons Geneva, Neuchatel and Zurich began developing their own electronic systems in 2004 and there are now 13 cantons [...]

Swiss commission underway, to push electronic voting © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/22/swiss-commission-underway-to-push-electronic-voting/feed/ 1 Sunday referendum boosted Swiss electronic votinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/14/sunday-referendum-boosted-swiss-electronic-voting/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/14/sunday-referendum-boosted-swiss-electronic-voting/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:04:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54068 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The popular referendum in Switzerland Sunday 13 February failed to take firearms out of Swiss homes, but it gave a boost to electronic voting. Twelve cantons continued to test electronic systems for federal voting, and there were no problems, according to Bern. The turnout for potential electronic voters was low, with [...]

Sunday referendum boosted Swiss electronic voting © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/14/sunday-referendum-boosted-swiss-electronic-voting/feed/ 0 Electronic votes to allow Swiss abroad their say in 5 more cantonshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/electronic-votes-to-allow-swiss-abroad-their-say-in-5-more-cantons/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/electronic-votes-to-allow-swiss-abroad-their-say-in-5-more-cantons/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:29:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=46844 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Five additional cantons will be able to offer electronic voting to their citizens in November 2010 federal elections, bringing the total number to 12 cantons, nearly half of the country. The Swiss federal electoral commission announced the decision 8 September. The November ballots take electronic voting, in which Switzerland is a [...]

Electronic votes to allow Swiss abroad their say in 5 more cantons © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/electronic-votes-to-allow-swiss-abroad-their-say-in-5-more-cantons/feed/ 0 Switzerland will pioneer e-voting for its citizens abroadhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/08/switzerland-will-pioneer-e-voting-for-its-citizens-abroad/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/08/switzerland-will-pioneer-e-voting-for-its-citizens-abroad/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:14:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=24462 GenevaLunch.com Geneva and Lucerne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal chancellor, Corina Casanova, told delegates to the annual meeting of the Swiss Abroad Organization in Lucerne that they will all be able to vote electronically by 2015, using a system that will gradually be extended to cover voters registered in all cantons. Switzerland thus becomes a [...]

Switzerland will pioneer e-voting for its citizens abroad © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/08/switzerland-will-pioneer-e-voting-for-its-citizens-abroad/feed/ 0