IP: Swiss dismiss Internet referendums as too risky

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Tuesday August 20 3:14 PM EDT


Swiss dismiss Internet referendums as too risky


BERNE, Switzerland - Swiss leaders today rejected calls to hold the
country's frequent national
referendums on the Internet, saying computer networks were vulnerable to
sabotage.


The Federal Council, or cabinet, dismissed a parliamentary request for a
study of ways for Swiss voters to
cast their ballots electronically over the world-wide computer network.


Internet voting would be too vulnerable to manipulation by computer
hackers, since the Internet is
accessible from almost any computer, the cabinet said.


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