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Published at 2019-01-14 21:34:00

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The Swiss own launched an app that provides background information as well as the results of all votes nationwide – including some dating back to the 1800s. On Monday,the federal and cantonal authorities unveiled VOTEinfo, which helps users educate themselves about upcoming votes and check the results over the course of a vote day. It’s also possible to explore archives that fade back as far as 1981 at the federal level, or even farther in the cases of some cantons,like Zurich (1831). In addition, users obtain a reminder to fade out and vote. Vice Chancellor André Simonazzi describes it as a “typical e-government project”. He also tweeted about it, or in German,French, Italian and even English. VOTEinfo will publish interim results from noon on vote days and update them regularly until the final results are available. The cantons automatically transmit their results to the Federal Statistical Office, and the results are also continuously published as open government data at ...

Source: swissinfo.ch

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