The Federal Chancellery and Swiss regions, known as cantons, expressed satisfaction at the high response barely a week after launching a registration for IT experts to help crack a planned update to Switzerland’s 15-year-old e-voting system. Among countries in Europe, only Estonia has a similar online voting program, a Swiss official said. The Swiss want to get out front on a system that could, one day, be mirrored or applied in other democracies. Under the arrangement with e-voting system operator Swiss Post, the four-week test run — known as a public intrusion test — starts Feb. 24. ADVERTISEMENTRene Lenzin, a spokesman for the Federal Chancellery, said the e-voting system is more complex than e-banking systems, where operators interact regularly with known customers.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 15, 2019 13:00 UTC