Subsection 3: Electronic voting.

At the same time as the documents provided for in article R. 723-10, the prefect shall send the electors an instruction relating to the procedures for accessing the electronic voting system to which the elector must connect in order to vote, as well as the instruments enabling the expression of the vote in accordance with procedures guaranteeing its confidentiality. These tools enable the voter to be authenticated and the uniqueness…

To vote electronically, the voter, after connecting to the website or any other network accessible to all voters, identifies himself, expresses his vote and validates it using the authentication instruments that have been allocated to him. They check the secure registration of their vote by the electronic voting system. Transmission of the vote and the voter’s signature are acknowledged electronically, with the date of receipt indicated. .

If the same voter uses both voting methods in the same capacity, only the electronic vote is considered valid.

On the day of the vote count, the chairman of the committee provided for in article L. 723-13 prints the list of voters from the “voter file” processing. The chairman and one of the members of the committee each receive a separate counting key from the prefect, in a manner that guarantees confidentiality, enabling them to access the data in the file known as the “contents of the electronic ballot…

The data relating to voters registered on the electoral roll as well as that relating to the expression of the vote shall be the subject, in accordance with the procedures laid down by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior, issued after obtaining the opinion of the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, of automated processing of information carried out on separate computer…

Until the expiry of the time limits for contentious appeals, the media files comprising the copy of source programmes and executable programmes, the voting materials, the count, results and backup files must be kept under seal under the supervision of the commission provided for in Article L. 723-13. The procedure for counting the votes recorded must, if necessary, be able to be carried out again. On expiry of the appeal…