Thank you for another interesting session and already 4 weeks have gone by. Also a big thank you for answering my questions which a few of us had thought of, while putting our heads together. It leads to more questions when a bit of time has passed to research a bit and network.
As for the Swiss election:
Officially 38% voted no and 62% yes. Some of the tactics used:
1) The wording of the text for the referendum was deliberately confusing so it was difficult for people who were against to know whether a yes meant no to the initiative or whether it was a no which did it.
2) The media was heavily at it, framing the choice and nudging the voters in the 'right' direction using amongst other tactic fear. A leaked video has since surfaced with the CEO of the biggest Swiss media group
Ringier, saying to staff not to question the government on Corona or their health advice. In other words only the government line was accepted. A link to an article in German with that leak is
here. Ringier Group
3) Circumstantial evidence: A work colleague of my wife has a friend who works for the Swiss Post. She said that they had been told to open the postal votes and if it was a 'NO' vote, then to destroy them. That is hard to believe in a country like Switzerland that it could happen, but it does not mean that it didn't happen in some places. One would counter by saying that this couldn't happen as it would be leaked, yet the way things are, most people would not believe such people or simply claim that such people are conspiracy theorists. The mass psychosis is still too entrenched at this point.
4) Circumstantial evidence: A few people remarked how they heard a lot of sirens from ambulance in the time up to the election but a noticeably drop afterwards. Whether this is in fact the case is hard to verify. Sirens can work in producing fear and to remind people that the 'pandemic' is real.
So the usual tactics sounds about right. This vote was another one of those which was too important to actually reflect reality.