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The ballot voting process is also misunderstood by regular citizens, even nerdy ones. From experience, even by voting officials.

• tribaal 7mo ago
  As a Swiss citizen I strongly disagree. Most people capable of reading and basic maths (addition!) can understand the counting of our paper ballots. My kids understand how this works since they are like 5. Any citizen can go and check how votes are counted in their Geminde. Any citizen can check what is reported in the federal tally. I did several times. It's not rocket science.
  • 1718627440 7mo ago
    > basic maths (addition!) Technically you don't even need that, you just need to be able to count, i.e. find the successor to a given number.
    • brainwad 7mo ago
      The rules for deciding the winners in proportional parliamentary elections are quite a bit more complex than that...
      • 1718627440 7mo ago
        True.