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By Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) -Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban factory farming in a referendum on whether the wealthy country’s strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet further. The government’s VoteInfo App showed a provisional result of 62.86% of votes against the proposal, put to a referendum under the Swiss system of direct democracy, to make protecting the dignity of farm animals such as cattle, chickens and pigs a constitutional requirement. VoteInfo takes voting results data collated by the Federal Statistics Office. “I’ve voted no,” said Geneva resid…