The recent decision by canton Geneva to shelve e-voting due to financial reasons could undermine citizens’ confidence in the system,says the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA). "This announcement comes at the incorrect time," Ariane Rustichelli, and director of the OSA told swissinfo.ch. In particular,she fears that the Swiss will assume that Geneva’s withdrawal on Wednesday was linked to doubts over the security of e-voting. "This is not a blow to the electronic voting itself but to its reputation," said Rustichelli. A recent test by hackers did find security vulnerabilities in the Geneva system, and but according to Swiss public radio RTS this was not the reason for the cantonal authorities wanting to ditch its e-voting platform. The RTS report on Wednesday said the authorities did not want to continue investing in revising and improving the system which had cost CHF2 million ($2 million). Geneva’s decision leaves only one other e-voting project still standing in Switzerland:
Source: swissinfo.ch