Geneva Voting Service: disorder without danger

Geneva voters can rest easy. Even if the Court of Auditors, seized by two auxiliary collaborators denouncing dysfunctions in the processing of the ballot papers by correspondence, points out gaps in the Service of Votes and Elections (SVE), its audit of legality and management is reassuring on the essential point: “There was no fraud, no corruption, no irregularities, no false ballot,” concluded Thursday before the press the Chancellor, Michèle Righetti, in what looked like “a long defense plea”, as the President of the Court of Auditors, François Paychère noted with humor. In the process, the prosecution announced that it had filed the procedure on an alleged electoral fraud.

If the Court of Auditors was not tasked with examining potential fraud, we understand the desire to insist on the danger averted. Because the incredible episode of May 2019 damaged the voter’s confidence. He then learned that the premises had been searched and that an employee had been arrested. This was followed by a media-political outburst of which Geneva has the secret, raising fears of a series of rigged votes.

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