#EAEF2612347AFrance updates data rules for electronic voting by French citizens abroad
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This order updates the rules for the personal-data system used in electronic voting for French citizens living abroad. It expands the system to cover elections for councillors of French citizens abroad and consular delegates, not only elections for overseas constituencies in the National Assembly. It adds sex and civil title to the voter data that may be processed, clarifies what candidate and list information can be handled, and identifies France’s digital identity guarantee service, SGIN, as the certified electronic ID tool for online voting. Election administrators and technology providers should check that systems, notices, and voter credential processes reflect these updated fields and delivery rules.
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Key Changes
- Extends the electronic voting data system to elections for councillors of French citizens abroad and consular delegates.
- Adds voters’ sex and civil title to the categories of personal data that may be processed.
- Names SGIN as the certified electronic identity service for online voting and clarifies how new voter credentials are sent.
Obligations
What this law requires
Operators of the electronic voting personal-data system must apply the system not only to elections of deputies representing French citizens abroad, but also to elections of councillors of French citizens abroad and consular delegates under the amended 2014 decree.
The voter data processed in the electronic voting system may include each voter’s sex and civil title, and system data schemas, privacy notices, and processing records should be updated accordingly.
For elections of councillors of French citizens abroad and consular delegates in constituencies with one seat, the system may process the candidate’s surname and first names, the replacement candidate’s surname and first names, and any candidate statement mention from the candidacy declaration, limited to 150 characters including spaces.
For elections of councillors of French citizens abroad and consular delegates in constituencies with more than one seat, the system may process the list title limited to 250 characters including spaces, each candidate’s surname and first names, their presentation order, and any head-of-list statement mention from the candidacy declaration limited to 150 characters including spaces.
The certified electronic identification method used to allow voters to attest their identity and vote electronically must be the Service de garantie de l'identité numérique (SGIN) authorized by Decree No. 2022-676 of 26 April 2022.