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There's a nugget of truth there, but I will say that the Swiss government has taken a very thorough/careful approach to implementing online voting. There are legislated cybersecurity standards for e-voting, individual and universal verifiability, pilot programs, meaningful observation, everything is open source, funding is set aside to incentivize researchers to find vulnerabilities [1].

When critical vulnerabilities were found with the previous implementation done by a private vendor, they dropped their vendor and restarted from scratch, doing everything in-house [2,3].

Not all jurisdictions are so careful. Over 200 municipalities in Ontario do voting online, despite no legislated standards (though a voluntary standard was recently developed). The voting systems are offered by private vendors, no organization is responsible for certifying these systems, and many systems do not offer any cryptographic verification of the results. It's quite interesting [4].

[1] https://digital-solutions.post.ch/en/e-government/blog/volls...

[2] https://openprivacy.ca/assets/knightsandknaves.pdf

[3] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/swiss-post-set-to-rela...

[4] https://whisperlab.org/ontario-online.pdf