Subsection 4: Election campaign and voting operations

In order to ensure equality of means for the lists and candidates, the National Commission sets the format and number of circulars to be sent out in the same way for all candidates. Articles L. 47 to L. 50 of the Electoral Code are applicable. The National Commission sets, no later than the sixtieth day before the date of the ballot before the date of the ballot: 1° The deadline…

For each election, electronic voting operations are supervised by a national electronic voting office, the chairman of which is appointed by order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Health. This board is made up of two representatives from each health professional union organisation standing for election and two representatives from the Ministry of Health. The secretariat of the committee is provided by the representatives of the Ministry…

Voters voting electronically are identified by means of an identifier and a password sent to each voter in a way that guarantees confidentiality. The identifier and password are transmitted by two different means of communication. The identifier and password are supplemented by an authentication protocol based on a question, the answer to which is known only to the voter and the Internet electronic voting system. A detailed information leaflet on…

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…

Those responsible for the automated processing extract and record on sealed media the contents of the ballot box, the electoral rolls and the current reports managed by the servers. These operations are carried out under the supervision of the Electronic Voting Office. The media created in this way are given to its chairman, who keeps them in a secure place. The Electronic Voting Office checks that the number of votes…

After the close of the ballot, the members of the electronic voting panel open the electronic ballot box publicly by activating the keys referred to in article R. 4031-34-2. The ballot box may only be opened if at least four keys have been activated, each by the member of the electronic voting office to whom it was issued in accordance with the conditions set out in the same article. The…

Until the expiry of the period for lodging an appeal or, where an appeal has been lodged, until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted, the media files, including copies of the source programmes and executable programmes, the voting materials, the count, results and back-up files and all the personal data recorded on the processing system provided for in Article R. 4031-21 shall be kept under seal, under the supervision…

Complaints against the results of the elections shall be lodged with the competent judicial court within five days of their proclamation. They shall be lodged by application made, delivered or addressed to the court registry. Complaints may be lodged by any elector or candidate as well as by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency if he is aware of a case of fraud. The court will rule within…

In the event of the annulment of the election of the members of a regional union or of one of the colleges making up the assembly of the regional union representing doctors, a special delegation responsible for the administration of the union shall be appointed by the director general of the regional health agency within fifteen days of the annulment. The Director General chooses the members of this delegation from…

The powers of the Special Delegation are limited to protective and urgent administrative acts. Under no circumstances may it commit the finances of the Union Assembly beyond the resources available for the current financial year, nor may it draw up the provisional budget referred to in article R. 4031-40. The functions of the Special Delegation automatically expire as soon as the newly elected members have been installed.