I am astonished to see such a faulty report in BBC. Procedures differ from community to community and from Canton to Canton. In most cities and towns, no such voting is done. What the BBC journalist describes is the procedure done in villages. But a majority of the population of Switzerland lives in towns and cities of more than 10'000 inhabitants.

That many villagers are xenophobe is of course undeniable, but again, the report is ways beside the facts.