Introduce e-voting, increase democracy?

Elections are in full swing for the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA), but not everyone is happy about the way they are organised. Different countries have their own rules – which leave many Swiss expatriates effectively disenfranchised. The current CSA meets for the last time in Bern on Saturday. The elections for the next council are being held over period from January to June, and it will be in office from 2013 to 2017. It will sit for the first time on August 16 in Davos during the Congress of the Swiss Abroad. The council represents the interests of Swiss expatriates to the authorities and to Swiss public opinion. Among the achievements it lists on its website are the optional right to continue to make pension contributions, and the introduction of the right to vote by mail. Grumbling in the ranks But its own voting procedures are now being called into question. The delegates are currently elected by the umbrella organisations of clubs for the Swiss abroad, or ...