Most Swiss Abroad won’t be able to vote online in 2027 federal election

Only a handful of cantons are likely to have an online voting system for the next federal elections, according to a survey by SWI swissinfo.ch. Six years after an initial pilot project, four cantons have resumed e-voting trials, while six others are considering doing so. The more than 230,000 Swiss Abroad on the electoral register must still be patient before they can exercise their political rights via the internet. “At the rate we’re going, it will be some 30 years before the entire Swiss electorate can vote online,” says political scientist Sean Müller. E-voting came to a halt in 2019, when the Swiss government put an end to the pilot project running in some cantons for security reasons. The nine cantons that were offering e-voting to all their electorate or just to the diaspora had to stop. The current relaunch of the digital voting platform is still modest, as shown by a SWI swissinfo.ch survey of all 26 cantons. Only four cantons – Basel City, St Gallen, Thurgau and ...