Prohibited from voting within the meaning of s. 136, para. 1, of the Constitution are persons who, because of a durable disability of discernment, are protected by a general curatorate or by a warrant for reasons of incapacity.

¹ Voting shall take place in the political residence, namely the municipality in which the elector resides and has announced to the local authority. Travellers vote in their commune of origin. ¹

² A person who files in a municipality other papers (certificate of nationality, provisional papers, etc.) that his act of origin acquires the political domicile there only on the condition of proving that he is not registered in the register of electors of the place where The original act was deposited.

¹ Voters are registered in the register of electors for their political residence. Registrations and deletions are operated ex officio.

² The registration for an election or a vote shall be received up to the fifth day before the day fixed for the election or voting, if it is established that the conditions for participating in the vote will be met on the day fixed for This one.

³ The register of electors may be consulted by any elector.

¹ Voting shall only be exercised through the use of ballot papers and official election ballots. They are treated as seizure bulletins issued by the cantons with a view to computerising the counting of ballots. ¹

² Ballots and non-print ballots must be completed by hand. Election bulletins with printing can only be modified by handwritten inscriptions.

³ The elector must exercise his or her right by personally filing the ballot in the ballot box or by voting by mail. ² The experimentation of electronic voting is governed by art. 8 A . ³

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⁶ The ballot paper may be placed in the ballot box by a third party only if the cantonal law allows it for elections and cantonal votes. An elector who is unable to write may have his or her ballot or ballot completed according to his or her instructions by an elector of his or her choice. ⁵

⁷ The secrecy of the vote must be safeguarded.

The cantons provide that the voter who is disabled or who, for another reason, is permanently unable to carry out the acts required by the exercise of his right to vote, nevertheless has the opportunity to vote.

¹ The cantons make possible early voting at least two of the four days before polling day.

² In the area of early voting, the cantonal law must provide that the ballot will be open for a specified period of time in all polling stations or in some polling stations only, or that the elector may hand over his or her ballot paper in a Envelope closed to an official service.

³ When cantons allow for early voting within a wider range, this regulation also applies to federal elections and elections.

⁴ The cantons shall lay down provisions to ensure a recount without any shortcomings, to safeguard the secrecy of the vote and to prevent abuses.

¹ The cantons establish a simple procedure for postal voting. They shall, inter alia, lay down the requirements to guarantee the supervision of the quality of an elector, to ensure a recount without any shortcomings in the vote, to safeguard the secrecy of the vote and to prevent abuse.

² Voters may vote by correspondence as soon as they have received the documents which, under the cantonal law, allow them to express their vote validly. ¹

¹ The Federal Council may, in agreement with the cantons and municipalities concerned, authorise the testing of electronic voting by limiting it to part of the territory, to certain dates and to certain objects.

^1bis It may, at the request of a canton which has experimented with electronic voting for an extended period without having suffered a failure, allow it to continue its tests during a period of its duration. It may include the authorization of conditions and charges, or limit it at any time, depending on the circumstances, to part of the territory, to certain dates and to certain objects. ²

² The control of the quality of an elector, the secrecy of the vote and the counting of all votes must be guaranteed. Any risk of abuse must be ruled out.

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⁴ The Federal Council regulates the modalities.

¹ The Federal Council adopts the rules for determining the days of the votes. In so doing, it takes into account the needs of the voters, the Parliament, the cantons, the political parties and the organisations responsible for handing over the voting equipment and avoiding collisions which may result from differences between the calendar year and the year Religious. ¹

^1bis The Federal Council shall fix, at least four months before the day of voting, the objects to be voted on. The four-month time limit may be shortened for federal statutes that are declared urgent. ²

² Each canton ensures the execution of the vote in its territory and adopts the necessary measures.

¹ The Federal Council shall inform the voters in an ongoing manner on the objects subject to the federal vote.

² It respects the principles of comprehensiveness, objectivity, transparency and proportionality.

³ It sets out the main opinions expressed during the parliamentary procedure.

⁴ It does not advocate a different voting recommendation than that formulated by the Federal Assembly.

¹ The Confederation makes the texts subject to voting and the ballot papers available to the cantons.

² The text submitted to the vote is accompanied by brief explanations from the Federal Council, which must remain objective and also set out the opinion of important minorities. It must contain the exact wording of the question on the ballot paper. In the case of a popular initiative or referendum, the committee makes its case to the Federal Council, which takes them back in its explanations. The Federal Council may amend or refuse to accept comments that are prejudicial to the honour, manifestly contrary to the truth or too long. It contains references to electronic sources only if their authors state in writing that these sources do not contain unlawful indications or refer the Internet user to electronic publications of illicit content. ²

³ The voters receive, at the earliest four weeks before the day of the vote, but no later than three weeks before that date, the documents which, under the cantonal law, allow them to express their vote validly (ballot paper, card Of legitimation, electoral envelope, stamp of control, ... ³ , etc.). However, the text submitted for voting and explanations may be given to them earlier. The Federal Chancellery shall publish, in electronic form and not later than six weeks before the day of the vote, the texts submitted to the vote and the explanations accompanying them. ^{4 5}

⁴ The cantons may, by law, empower municipalities to send only one copy of the text subject to voting and explanations per household unless a member of that household having the status of an elector requests a copy of the text. Personally. ⁶

¹ Ballot papers are void:

A.

If they are not official;

B.

They are filled otherwise than by hand;

C.

If they do not clearly express the will of the voter;

D.

They contain remarks that are prejudicial to the honour or are marked with signs;

E. ¹

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² The grounds for invalidity and annulment arising from the cantonal proceedings (election envelope, stamp of control, etc.) are reserved.

³ The canton which is experimenting with electronic voting lays down in its right the conditions of validity and the reasons for the invalidity of the vote. ²

¹ Blank ballots and spoiled ballots are not taken into consideration for the finding of the outcome of the voting. ¹

² If an object collects an equal number of yes and no in a canton, it is considered to have rejected that object. ²

³ A very tight result requires a recount of votes only if it is likely that irregularities have occurred and that their nature and magnitude have significantly influenced the outcome at the federal level. ³

¹ After each vote, the officers of each polling station shall draw up a record in which they indicate the total number of registered voters, including that of the Swiss abroad, the number of voters, the number of white papers, Invalid ballots and ballots, as well as the number of electors who accepted the project and the number of electors who rejected it. ¹

² The minutes shall be forwarded to the cantonal government. The latter shall summarise the provisional results for the whole of the canton, communicate them to the Federal Chancellery and publish them in the official sheet of the canton within 13 days after the day of the vote. If necessary, it publishes the results in a separate number. ²

³ The cantons shall transmit the minutes and, on request, also the ballots, within ten days after the expiry of the appeal period (Art. 79, para. 3) at the Federal Chancellery. After the vote was validated, the ballot papers were destroyed.

¹ The Federal Council shall declare the final result of the vote (validation) as soon as it is established that no appeal has been lodged before the Federal Court or as soon as the judgments on such appeals have been delivered. ¹

² The commitment order is published in the Federal Leaf.

³ The amendments to the Constitution shall enter into force upon their acceptance by the people and the cantons, unless the project otherwise provides.

⁴ If the amendment of the law does not suffer any delay and the outcome of the vote is indisputable, the Federal Council or the Federal Assembly may, prior to the enactment of the order for validation, temporarily enter into force a law or A federal order approving an international agreement or maintaining or provisionally repealing an emergency declared law. ²

¹ The lists (on sheets, pages or maps) by which the authors of a popular initiative collect signatures must contain the following information: ¹

A.

The canton and the political commune where the signatory has the right to vote;

B. ² The title and text of the initiative, as well as the date of publication in the Federal Leaf;

C. ³

A withdrawal clause that meets the requirements of s. 73;

D. ⁴

The statement that anyone falsifies the result of a collection of signatures for a popular initiative (art. 282 PC ⁵ ) Or is guilty of active or passive bribery in connection with a collection of signatures (art. 281 CP) is punishable;

E. ⁶

The name and address of the authors of the initiative, who must have the right to vote and be at least seven, but not more than twenty-seven (own initiative committee).

² Art. 60, para. 2, also applies to popular initiatives ⁷

¹ Before the collection of signatures, the Federal Chancellery makes a decision determining whether the list satisfies the requirements of the law.

² Where the title of an initiative is misleading, contains elements of commercial or personal advertising or is confusing, it is the responsibility of the Federal Chancellery to amend it.

³ The Federal Chancellery shall examine the agreement of the texts and, where appropriate, carry out the necessary translations.

⁴ The title and text of the initiative, as well as the names of its authors, are published in the Federal Leaf. ¹

Anyone who downloads, for the purposes of a popular initiative, a list to be signed electronically must ensure that it meets all the formal requirements of the law.

The provisions relating to the referendum concerning the signature (Art. 61), the certification of the quality of an elector (s. 62) and the refusal of the certificate (art. 63) are applicable by analogy to the popular initiative.

¹ The lists of signatures in support of a popular initiative shall be deposited at the Federal Chancellery at the latest 18 months after the publication of the text in the Federal Leaf.

² Once deposited, the lists of signatures may not be returned or consulted.

¹ At the end of the time limit for the collection of signatures, the Federal Chancellery finds whether or not the popular initiative has collected the number of valid signatures required by the Constitution. If the number of valid signatures is less than half the number prescribed by the Constitution, it simply mentions in the Federal Worksheet that the deadline for collecting signatures has expired and the initiative has not been completed. If this is not the case, it will determine whether or not the initiative has been successful. ¹

² Are null:

A.

Signatures on lists that do not meet the requirements of s. 68;

B.

Signatures of persons whose qualified electors have not been certified;

C.

Signatures on lists filed after the deadline for the collection of signatures. ²

³ The Federal Chancellery publishes in the Federal Worksheet The decision on the outcome of the initiative by indicating, by canton, the number of valid signatures and null signatures.

¹ Any popular initiative may be withdrawn by the own-initiative committee. To be valid, the declaration of withdrawal must be signed by an absolute majority of the members of the own-initiative committee who still have the right to vote.

² A popular initiative can be withdrawn until the day when the Federal Council fixes the date of popular vote. In the past, the Federal Chancellery invites the initiative committee to inform it of its decision, setting out a short period of reflection.

³ No initiative in the form of a proposal conceived in general terms can be withdrawn after it has been approved by the Federal Assembly.

¹ The withdrawal of a popular initiative is in principle unconditional.

² However, if the Federal Assembly objects to the initiative an indirect counter-project developed in the form of a federal law that it adopts no later than the date of the final vote on the initiative, the initiative committee may include the withdrawal of its Initiative on the express condition that the counter-project is not rejected in popular vote.

³ Conditional withdrawal takes effect:

A.

If the counterproject did not result in a referendum, as soon as the referendum period has expired;

B.

If the referendum against the counterproject did not succeed, as soon as its non-completion was validly established;

C.

If a request for a referendum has been successful and the people have accepted the counterproject, as soon as the Federal Council has validated the outcome of the vote according to Art. 15, para. 1.

¹ When a popular initiative does not respect the principle of unity of matter (art. 139, para. 3, and art. 194, para. 2, Cst.), that of the unity of form (art. 139, para. 3, and art. 194, para. 3, Cst.) or the mandatory rules of international law (art. 139, para. 3, 193, para. 4, and 194, para. 2, Cst.), the Federal Assembly declares it null and void, in whole or in part, to the extent necessary. ²

² The unit of matter is respected when there is an intrinsic relationship between the different parts of an initiative.

³ The unity of the form shall be respected when the initiative is submitted exclusively in the form of a proposal conceived in general terms or exclusively under the proposal of a draft of all documents.

¹ In order to submit an initiative to the popular vote, the Federal Council has a period of ten months from the final vote of the Federal Assembly, but no more than ten months after the expiry of the statutory deadlines reserved for Parliament to consider The popular initiative.

² If the Committee withdraws its initiative on a conditional basis in favour of the indirect counterdraft and the latter is rejected in popular vote, the Federal Council shall submit the popular initiative to the vote of the people and the cantons within a period of ten months to From the date of validation of the outcome of the vote on the counterproject according to Art. 15, para. 1.

³ When an initiative conceived in general terms is accepted, the constitutional amendment relating thereto, drafted in all documents, shall be submitted to the vote of the people and the cantons within ten months of the final vote of the Federal Assembly.

^3bis The time limits set out in paras. 1 to 3 are extended by six months, when the time at which they begin to run is between ten and three months before the next full renewal of the National Council. ²

⁴ The treatment of a popular initiative by the Federal Council and the Federal Assembly, as well as the time limits, are governed by the Act of 13 December 2002 on Parliament ³ .

¹ When the Federal Assembly develops a counter-project, three questions will be put to the voters on the same ballot paper. Each elector may declare without reservation:

A.

Prefers the popular initiative to the current regime;

B.

Prefer the counterdraft to the current regime;

C.

Which both texts should enter into force in the event that the people and the cantons would prefer the two texts to the current regime.

² The absolute majority is determined separately for each question. Unanswered questions are not taken into consideration.

³ When both the popular initiative and the counterproject are accepted, it is the result of the answers to the third question that takes the decision. Enters the text which, in this matter, collects the most votes from voters and the most votes from the cantons.

¹ A political party may be officially registered by the Federal Chancellery on condition that:

A.

It revs the legal form of an association within the meaning of s. 60 to 79 of the Civil Code ¹ ;

B.

That it has at least one member of the National Council under the same name or that it is represented in at least three cantonal parliaments by at least three members of parliament.

² Any political party wishing to be registered in the party register shall communicate to the Federal Chancellery the following documents and data:

A.

A copy of its articles and any subsequent changes;

B.

Its official name and address of its registered office;

C.

The name and address of the President and the Secretary of the National Party.

³ The Federal Chancellery maintains the register of data provided by political parties. This register is public. The Federal Assembly sets the terms and conditions in an order.

¹ The use of the cantonal government is admissible against:

A. ¹

The violation of the provisions on the right to vote under s. 2 to 4, art. 5, para. 3 and 6, and art. 62 and 63 (the right to vote);

B. ²

Irregularities affecting the votes (use of votes);

C.

Irregularities affecting the preparation and execution of elections to the National Council (elections).

² The appeal must be filed by registered letter within three days of the discovery of the ground of appeal, but no later than the third day after the publication of the results in the official sheet of the canton. ³

¹ The case arguments must be reasoned by a brief statement of the facts.

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¹ The cantonal government shall decide the appeal within ten days of its filing.

² Where it finds irregularities following an appeal or ex officio, it shall, as far as possible before the close of the election or vote, take measures to remedy the deficiencies noted.

^2bis The cantonal government rejects the application without further examination of the case if it finds that the irregularities relied on are neither of a nature nor of any importance, as they may have decisively influenced the main result of the Voting or election. ¹

³ The cantonal government shall notify its decision on appeal and the other measures taken in accordance with Art. 34-38 and 61, para. 2, of the Federal Act of 20 December 1968 on the administrative procedure ² And also communicates them to the Federal Chancellery. ³

¹ Decisions on the appeal of cantonal governments (art. 77) may be appealed to the Federal Court in accordance with the Act of 17 June 2005 on the Federal Court ² .

² Decisions of the Federal Chancellery relating to the non-registration of a party in the party register or to the non-completion of a popular initiative or referendum may be appealed to the Federal Court. It is not, however, admissible against the mere mention in the Federal Worksheet that the popular initiative or the request for a referendum has manifestly failed to achieve the number of signatures referred to in s. 66, para. 1, and 72, para. 1. ³

³ The members of the initiative committee may also appeal to the Federal Court against the decisions of the Federal Chancellery relating to the formal validity of the list of signatures (Art. 69, para. 1) or under the initiative (Art. 69, para. 2).

The cantonal law shall apply to the extent that this Law and the performance requirements of the Confederation do not contain any other provisions. Federal Judicial Organization Act of 16 December 1943 ¹ Is reserved.

¹ The Federal Council may authorize the cantonal governments to enact provisions derogating from this Act if they intend to use new technical means to establish the results of the elections. ¹

² The use of technical means in electoral events is subject to approval by the Federal Council. ²

¹ No fee may be levied for administrative acts performed under this Act. In the case of dilatory remedies or contrary to good faith, the costs may be borne by the appellant.

² For the proceedings before the Federal Court, the costs are governed by the Act of 17 June 2005 on the Federal Court ² .

¹ The Confederation maintains statistics on federal elections and votes; these statistics, broken down by commune, by district and by township, bear:

A.

For the elections: on the number of votes obtained per candidate and by list of electors;

B.

For votes: on the number of positive votes collected by the objects put in votation. ¹

^1bis The Federal Council may order further statistical statements on the elections to the National Council and the popular vote. ²

² After having heard the competent cantonal government, it may provide that, in specially designated communes, the voting will take place separately, depending on the gender and age classes.

³ The secrecy of the vote must not be threatened.