Swiss Voters Use SMS
cating that they’d like to vote via SMS. They were then sent a postcard with both their elector number and a PIN number, Folkes said. "Your neighbor or someone else could see this and you wouldn’t know," he said. Voters would find out that someone stole their identifiers when their vote wouldn’t be accepted because it would appear to have been sent twice. However, people who never voted might never know that their identifiers had been stolen.
Folkes thinks further pilots are unlikely any time soon. "I suspect you won’t see any for a good few years," he said.
Prader said that she didn’t study previous implementations like those in the U.K. because the Swiss voting system is very different and as such other deployments were unlikely to be helpful.
Bulach residents will have another chance to vote via SMS in November on a different issue. The Swiss government will examine the results of the trials and may decide to allow for SMS voting around the country, she said.
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
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