BERN - Polling stations opened on Sunday for two federal initiatives: civic duty for all, and a climate inheritance tax on large estates. Clerks in several communes said morning walk-ins were thin and the postal stack was the real event. That is how a modest turnout is built.
Yes campaigners stood in the rain anyway. No campaigners mostly stayed home, which is a kind of confidence.
Numbers after dark
Projections were due in the afternoon. The night report records the double no that the polls had advertised. Winter session opens in the morning.