#2026-361Electronic voting rules for medical professional order elections
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The decree sets the operating rules for electronic voting in elections to the councils of medical professional orders in France. It covers how voting systems must be organized, supervised, secured, and audited. Medical professional orders will need election rules that address electronic voting, obtain input from the French data protection authority, set up an independent oversight commission, securely distribute voter credentials, publish candidate information online, and preserve voting records for possible review before destruction.
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Key Changes
- Creates detailed rules for electronic voting in medical professional order elections
- Requires oversight by a national control commission including an independent expert
- Sets security rules for voter credentials, encrypted anonymous voting, record retention, and file destruction
Obligations
What this law requires
The national council of each medical professional order must set the organizational rules for electronic voting in its electoral regulations and adopt those rules only after obtaining the opinion of the French data protection authority (CNIL).
A national commission must be established to supervise electronic voting operations, monitor the proper functioning of the electronic voting system, and include at least one expert who is independent from the election-organizing authority.
At least 15 days before the election, voters must receive confidentially delivered electronic voting instructions, a personal identification code, and a unique password, with the identification code transmitted through a communication channel different from the one used for the password.
The electoral regulations must provide a secure procedure allowing a voter whose authentication credentials are lost or compromised to vote under conditions that protect the personal nature of the vote to an equivalent level as other voting methods.
At least 15 days before the election, the president of the organizing council or an authorized representative must make the list of candidates or candidate pairs and any related campaign statements available to voters electronically.