I. – Voting by electronic means opens on a Wednesday at 12 noon (Paris time) and closes at the same time on the following Tuesday, or the following Wednesday if the period includes a public holiday.
II. – Before the electronic vote opens, separate, confidential and strictly personal encryption keys are given, in a sealed envelope, to each of the full and alternate members of the electronic voting committee. Each key is allocated according to a procedure that guarantees that the recipients alone have knowledge of the secrecy associated with the key allocated to them personally.
The e-voting office seals the voting system, the voters’ list and the lists of candidates and checks that they are effective.
The e-voting office checks that the voters’ lists are blank and that the electronic ballot box is empty. The electoral roll and the electronic ballot box are subject to a procedure that ensures that they can only be modified by the addition of an electoral roll and a dematerialised ballot paper from an elector who has been authenticated in a non-fraudulent manner.
III. – To vote electronically, the voter, after logging on to the voting system and identifying himself in accordance with the procedures set out in article R. 4031-34-1, casts and validates his vote. This operation triggers the sending of a dematerialised ballot paper, which remains encrypted in the ballot box until the vote is counted.
Validation of the vote makes it final and prevents any changes.
Once the vote has been registered and the voter has paid the ballot, a receipt is sent electronically, enabling the voter to check online that his or her vote has been taken into account.