The Federal Act on Political Rights (PRA) gives the cantons responsibility for conducting Swiss federal votes and elections within their territory and sets out the regulatory framework for the associated process. Trials with electronic voting are governed by Federal Law (Art 8a PRA), the Ordinance on Political Rights (Art. 27a ff. PoRO), the Federal Chancellery Ordinance on Electronic Voting and other regulations on execution. 

At the end of 2020, the Federal Council agreed to the new focus of the trial operation for e-voting. The amended Ordinance on Political Rights (PoRO) and the Ordinance on Electronic Voting (OEV) came into force on 1 July 2022.