Thousands of fake signatures flagged in Swiss people's initiative

More than 3,600 of the signatures submitted for the initiative for the security of medical supplies were invalid. The majority of the problematic signatures, previously validated by the municipalities and cantons, came from Geneva. The popular initiative succeeded in crossing the 100,000 threshold shortly before Christmas with 108,709 valid signatures out of 112,335 submitted. Of these, 3,626 turned out to be invalid, the Federal Chancellery confirmed on Saturday, following a report in the Tamedia Group's German-language newspapers. The majority came from the canton of Geneva, with 3,308 signatures invalidated. The Federal Chancellery points out that, in a check of ten popular initiatives, it had discovered only 35 invalid signatures in the canton of Geneva. Mass forgery The large number of invalid signatures in the case of the "Yes to secure medical supplies" initiative raises suspicions of "mass professional forgery", according to the newspapers Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung ...