Federal government reviews new e-voting system
The Federal Council is launching an independent review of Swiss Post's future e-voting system. The evaluation will take place over months.
As the Confederation writes in a media release, individual cantons are currently planning to resume trials of the future Swiss Post e-voting system. That is why the Confederation is now launching an independent audit of the system. However, this is likely to take several months and is intended to serve as a basis for the resumption.
More responsibility is to fall to the federal government as a result. The assessment of the risks and the responsibility for a deployment therefore also remain with the federal government. The test reports of the experts will be published once the test has been completed. The legal basis for the operation of the e-voting system provides for a number of further audits.
For example, cantons generally must ensure that the system vendor operates an open bug bounty program or discloses the system code and rewards the gap finders who discover a bug.
Source: Federal Chancellery
