The country introduced e-voting in 2003 on a limited basis, as part of ongoing tests, and earlier this year it disclosed the future Swiss e-voting system, in phases, to be able to implement any necessary improvements.

The e-voting system is expected to deliver not only transparency, but also reliability, voting secrecy, and verifiability, while meeting high requirements for security. Before being approved for real votes, the system must go through various types of testing and simulated hacker attacks.