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SWITZERLAND REVISES ELECTION RESULTS AFTER COUNTING ERROR


Far right performed slightly worse while centrist parties did better than the erroneous count showed.

Switzerland has corrected the results of its federal election, after a human-caused computer error led to support for rightwing populists being overstated.

In a country which prides itself on its precision, the mistake, revealed by the Federal Office of Statistics (BFS) on Wednesday evening, has been greeted with disbelief.

“It’s inexcusable . . .  We regret the mistake and we take the incident very seriously,” BFS director-general Georges-Simon Ulrich said at a hastily convened press conference in Bern.

His agency had been overloaded with work, he explained, and checks that should have taken place earlier were not run until Tuesday, two days after the election results were formally declared.

The reason for the error was a human-caused weighting error in the software which tabulated the results. The computer multiplied the vote count in three of Switzerland’s 26 cantons by three to five times.

The three cantons in question — Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Appenzell Outer Rhodes and Glarus — happen to be the most rural and conservative in the whole country, explaining why the far right’s results were overstated at the expense of centrist parties. Women were only allowed to vote in Appenzell Inner Rhodes in 1990, after a federal court ruling forced the canton to change its electoral law.

“The erroneous programming caused a multiple count of the votes cast in the three cantons for the parties in contention. As a result, too many votes were attributed to these parties, which had repercussions at the national level,” the BFS said in a statement.

According to the adjusted results, the hard right Swiss People’s party secured 27.9 per cent of the vote, not 28.6 per cent.
Switzerland’s two Green parties together polled 17.4 per cent, rather than 16.6 per cent.
The Liberals — the party which founded modern Switzerland — came in third place, not fourth, with 14.3 per cent.

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland’s newspaper of record, declared the situation to be a “fiasco” and said the country would have a hard time recovering from the embarrassment.

The corrected results do not affect the allocation of seats in Switzerland’s parliament, but they might have an impact on negotiations over the composition of the seven-person Swiss executive, the Federal Council - which is due to be voted on by parliamentarians in mid-December.

“The history of the 2023 elections must be written,” said Cédric Wermuth, one of the leaders of the social democrats whose party’s share in the election also increased slightly, from 18 per cent to 18.3 per cent.

The Greens have already declared that the adjusted result makes them more likely to fight for a place in government. The seven seats on the Federal Council are allocated between the four largest parties in parliament in a set ratio — 2:2:2:1 — known as “the magic formula”. There is no constitutional basis for the allocation, however.

With a strengthened hand — and a narrative that has subtly shifted in their favour — the Greens are more likely to try and fight for a historic alteration to the ratio in the coming weeks.

Source1:
FINANCIAL TIMES.
https://www.ft.com/content/9b2265e6-2d4e-4b10-8309-0a905d72f5cc


**Recall:
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on Sunday - 22 October 2023 - to elect all members of the National Council and Council of States.
These elections will be followed by elections to the Federal Council, Switzerland's government and collegial presidency, on Wednesday - 13 December 2023.
Source2:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Swiss_federal_election

Go back and read the news again abbeggii..
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The FEDERAL STATISTICS OFFICE IN SWITZERLAND did a review on TUESDAY...
That is,, TWO DAYS AFTER THE RESULTS WERE DECLARED..!!
And they even apologized for delaying the review this much.!!
(Notice that the whole review took less than ONE DAY to run and complete.)

It means that the Results were declared on the same Sunday,, the same day on which the elections took place.
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This is what we call Adequate Checks And Balances Put In Place..
The Institutions in Switzerland Are Strong And Functioning Properly..

They found the errors, traced the source of the errors, and owned up, and made corrections immediately..

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In another country,, they had a monumental glitch which was introduced by them, and this glitch caused an untold amount of catastrophe. Yet they were even defending the glitch. And they never even owned up to the numerous problems caused by the glitch which they had already accepted.

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The typical Nigerian Politicians will finish reading this news and come out to say:

“You see am naa..
This type of thing is one of the main reasons we wouldn't want to introduce “Electronic Collation”.. Imagine Switzerland encountered such errors with all their advanced technologies.,, talk more of Nigeria..”

In my country Nigeria,this will never happen, rather they will pass off the error as the actual results.Switzerland is a landlocked country,yet has one of the strongest economies in Europe, with an extremely high Human Development Index. Switzerland is one of the most developed countries on earth, and is the world's wealthiest country per capita in multiple rankings,far more than the US itself.

Anywhere you see bottleneck in Nigeria know there is corruption there

Nigerians politicians want a system they can manipulate but others can't manipulate

It's very easy to amend our constitution to give a fairly free and fair elections very easy

1) Results can't be collected untill all results from that Ward is uploaded to IREV

2)Any polling unit not uploaded to IREV 4 hours after the last capture is automatically cancelled

This too laws along would reduce rigging by 90%

I'm sure PDP is wishing they strengthened institutions when they were in power

APC too would wish the same thing someday

With all the resources and wealth at Nigeria's disposal, the country is still light years away from civilization.
China worked its way up to a global superpower in just a little over 70 years.

And some fools still think this is about APC, PDP or LP political prostitutes they worship.

It is about holding these elites accountable and ensure there are working institutions in place!

If you or your loved ones have a medical emergency that requires surgery overseas, you think any of these political prostitutes will give a 4k about you?

No worry, keep fighting yourselves while the political prostitutes keep looking at you for the poor fools that you are.

And by the way, prayers don’t solve national problems.

This is what democracy is all about - righting the wrongs of democratic institutions and ensuring right approach to good governance not established on fraud or corruption

In my country Nigeria na na Court go settle am.
Judiciary decitate who win election in Nigeria.
inec is just an application center

Seriously

MXrep:
Weak institutions favor the criminal gang.
The poor people cheering them are what I have not yet understood..

Me too.
I baffle.

Anti-People Politicians, Playing Anti-People Politics.

And the people are cheering the politician who plays dirty the most.
Yet, the politics is seriously affecting their lives adversely.

MXrep:
Weak institutions favor the criminal gang. The poor people cheering them are what I have not yet understood

Never underestimate the impact of stupid people in numbers

BluntCrazeMan:
Go back and read the news again abbeggii..
..
..
The FEDERAL STATISTICS OFFICE IN SWITZERLAND did a review on TUESDAY...
That is,, TWO DAYS AFTER THE RESULTS WERE DECLARED..!!
And they even apologized for delaying the review this much.!!
(Notice that the whole review took less than ONE DAY to run and complete.)

It means that the Results were declared on the same Sunday,, the same day on which the elections took place.
..
..
This is what we call Adequate Checks And Balances Put In Place..
The Institutions in Switzerland Are Strong And Functioning Properly..

They found the errors, traced the source of the errors, and owned up, and made corrections immediately..

.
.
In another country,, they had a monumental glitch which was introduced by them, and this glitch caused an untold amount of catastrophe. Yet they were even defending the glitch. And they never even owned up to the numerous problems caused by the glitch which they had already accepted.

Direct your Vituperation to US of A in their 2020 election

nigeria is a jungle that only favors the wild

Alright

Hmmmmm!

Country wey go move forward will move forward.

Country wey go crash go crash.

Hehehe

Iyâmiris must wail again

Sane climes, Nigeria is one nation I find very toxic to morality and common sense, we can't collectively agree on basic principles that must be followed irrespective of political party, this is just a nation without a soul.

Working nation

BluntCrazeMan:
Source1:
FINANCIAL TIMES.
https://www.ft.com/content/9b2265e6-2d4e-4b10-8309-0a905d72f5cc


**Recall:
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on Sunday - 22 October 2023 - to elect all members of the National Council and Council of States.
These elections will be followed by elections to the Federal Council, Switzerland's government and collegial presidency, on Wednesday - 13 December 2023.
Source2:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Swiss_federal_election

Not in Nigeria.

A sane county

Can never happen in Nigeria.