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. The Federal Council agreed to the new focus of the trial operation for e-voting at the end of 2020 and announced the amendment to the Federal Act on Political Rights (PRA) and the Ordinance on Political Rights.

Complete verifiability will become a precondition for e-voting

In future, the Confederation will approve only completely verifiable systems for e-voting. Complete verifiability allows manipulations to the electronically cast votes to be detected. Swiss Post’s new e-voting system guarantees complete verifiability.