Casting your vote – even if it is sometimes a chore

Admittedly, it was arduous at times: Just the documents themselves, which included two hefty booklets, various information sheets and the ballot papers, namely for the five federal proposals – pro public service, unconditional basic income, the milch cow initiative, the amendment to the law on reproductive medicine and an amendment to the Asylum Act – plus, because I live in Baselland, six cantonal proposals ranging from supplementary childcare to the “Cantonal parliament resolution on the implementation of the pension fund law reform for the pension scheme of the University of Basel under the pension fund of the canton of Basel-Stadt – a partnership-based enterprise”. Finally, the envelope also contained three ballot papers from my commune of Schönenbuch. These concerned the re-election of members of the school board, the election office and the president of the communal parliament. That comes to 14 referenda and votes in total.