BERN - The first full September surveys put the e-ID act inside the margin of error, with a slight no in several German-speaking cantons and a softer yes in cities. Because the text is a federal act, the popular vote decides. A map of cantons leaning no still matters for the mood.

Privacy arguments were doing more work than technical ones. That is what the yes camp feared in August. It is what they have to answer now.

The other file is calmer

The second-home tax decree polled more clearly yes. Mountain communes liked that sentence. They also knew a national yes is not yet a local tariff.