The title is misleading. It's an e-voting PILOT. That's important. "Switzerland is running small-scale e-voting pilots in four of its 26 cantons", three of which were not affected.

From Wikipedia [1]:

> A pilot experiment, pilot study, pilot test or pilot project is a small-scale preliminary study conducted to evaluate feasibility, duration, cost, adverse events, and improve upon the study design prior to performance of a full-scale research project.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_experiment

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beautiful_apple 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Switzerland has been very careful/ conservative about rolling out e-voting. The same cannot be said of other jurisdictions (like Ontario's municipal elections) where adoption is very rapid and without coordination/support/standards from the provincial or federal governments.

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jjgreen 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Had to truncate the title since too long for HN (often the case for the Register)

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palata 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And it makes it sound like a production system failed, where what actually happened is that this was a pilot that worked in 3/4 of the involved cantons and that the people who participated to it knew it was a pilot.

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Alifatisk 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You cut out something that changed the message entirely

	▲	jjgreen 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought the edit window was 15 minutes, but it seems it is an hour, so edited to restore the "pilot"