Hand more
In Switzerland, an open hand is understood to mean a vote in which the majority is determined by a show of hands. At community meetings as well as rural communities , it is still the usual procedure. Even in clubs, the majority of the hand is the usual voting procedure.
The open hand majority has meanwhile been replaced in many cases by the ballot box. In the canton of Basel-Landschaft , the hand more was required in a closed assembly in municipal elections until 1896 and in district elections until 1919.
In order to prevent the arms from being raised twice, colored voting cards are often distributed, which are then held up and then counted.
The hand more was for a long time the usual procedure in direct democracy, but it has several, sometimes serious disadvantages: It is not a secret ballot, so it is possible to influence the voting behavior of the person sitting next to you. In addition, the larger the group of people, the more susceptible the procedure is to errors, since the correct counting is the more difficult. Subsequent checking of the result is also not possible.