Swiss e-vote snafu leaves 2,048 ballots unreadable

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With the USB sticks for access to the digital urn there was "a problem". Which one was still open. In the election the votes were not taken into account.

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After the breakdown on voting Sunday, Basel is pulling the emergency brake: By the end of the year, Basel-Stadt is suspending the e-voting.

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The Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt has stopped a pilot project on electronic voting in elections after more than 2000 votes could not be counted technically in the national referendums of 8 March. (Read more)

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More than 2,000 votes had not been taken into account in the countingThe pilot project for electronic voting in the canton of Basel-Stadt is being stopped for the time being.After a technical breakdown in the votes of 8 March, the cantonal government will suspend the test operation until at least the end of 2026.The trigger for the decision is a mistake, due to which 2,048 electronically cast votes were not included in the counting.As the govern…

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The canton of Basel-City suspended its electronic voting pilot project after a defective USB flash drive prevented the decryption of 2,048 ballots during the federal ballots on 8 March. A criminal investigation was opened. Three USB flash drives, zero result On the evening of 7 March, the day before the vote, the chancellery of the canton of Basel-City announced a technical problem on its electronic voting system. The next day, 2,048 votes remai…