#2026-349France updates electronic voting rules for remote voters
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This decree updates France’s rules for electronic voting by correspondence, mainly for voters who use remote voting systems. It allows voters to prove their identity through a certified electronic identification method, while keeping the existing login and password route with a confirmation code.
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Key Changes
- Allows certified electronic identification as a way for voters to prove their identity before voting online
- Clarifies when an electronic vote is considered recorded rather than merely validated
- Lets the electronic polling office extend the closing time for online voting when circumstances justify it
Obligations
What this law requires
Electronic voting procedures must specify how voters may attest their identity using a presumed reliable and certified electronic identification method under Article L. 102 III of the French Postal and Electronic Communications Code.
Remote electronic voting systems must allow voter identity to be attested either through a certified electronic identification method or through the existing identifier-and-password mechanism.
Where a voter uses an identifier and password to authenticate, the identifier and password must have no link to the voter’s civil status.
Where a voter authenticates using an identifier and password, the voter’s electronic vote must be validated using a confirmation code communicated under the modalities set by the relevant implementing order.
Electronic voting materials referenced in Article R. 176-3-10 must be kept in a secure location within the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.