Subsection 2: Postal voting.

Envelopes containing postal votes are admitted duty-free.

At least twelve days before the date of counting of the votes for the first ballot, the prefect shall send the electors two electoral envelopes intended, for each ballot, to receive the ballot paper and two envelopes bearing the words “Election of the judges of the commercial court. – Postal vote”, “Jurisdiction:” and “Surname, first names and signature of the voter:”. One of the two envelopes shall also be marked…

Each elector votes using a ballot paper that he or she drafts himself or herself. They may also use one of the printed ballot papers sent by certain candidates following the opinion of the committee provided for in article L. 723-13. This printed ballot paper may be altered by hand. Each voter places only one ballot paper in an envelope. The number of candidates designated by each elector on his…

The prefect draws up a list of voters from whom he has received the envelope in which the votes were cast. The list is closed at 6 p.m. on the eve of the counting of votes in the first ballot. Any envelopes received after this time shall bear a reference to the date and time they were received at the prefecture and shall be retained by the prefect. The list…

The postal vote attendance list is made up of the attendance list provided for in article R. 723-19. Failing this, a copy of the list of voters provided for in this article takes the place of the list of voters. At the close of the ballot, the secretary of the committee provided for in Article L. 723-13 shall write “postal vote” opposite the name of each voter on the voters’…

The members of the committee provided for in article L. 723-13 proceed with the counting of the ballot papers contained in the ballot box. The envelopes used to send the votes and the list of voters who have cast postal votes are attached to the list of voters and kept in accordance with the conditions set out in article R. 723-23.

The provisions of articles R. 49, R. 52, the first paragraph of Articles R. 54 and R. 59, Article R. 62, of the first paragraph of Article R. 63, and Article R. 68 of the Electoral Code apply to the electoral operations organised with a view to the appointment of the judges of the commercial courts. For the application of these provisions, the commission provided for in article L. 723-13…