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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

8. Data protection

Is it not incompatible with the democratic nature of voting to vote on a system that the public cannot check?

The Central Electoral Committee, which is unique in Switzerland, has access to all the technical and organisational information relating to the voting system. It has a control ballot box, which gives it direct access to the system, and allows it to check that nothing distorts the content of the votes. Furthermore, it has the power to request at any time, any audit or analysis of the system. Therefore, the Central Electoral Committee can watch over and monitor the system, independently of the administration.

How are people prevented from voting more than once?

There is only one electoral roll for the three voting methods. Any vote cast by an advanced voting channel, postal voting or online voting, blocks the other. For postal voting and voting at the polling station, the fact that the password shown on the voting card is no longer hidden by a hologram shows that the card may have been used to vote online. In this case, we will check in the electoral roll that the card holder has not already voted before accepting his postal or ballot box vote.

What happens if there is a technical breakdown during the ballot?

In the event of technical problems that prevent you from voting online, you can still vote by post or at the polling station, because online voting closes before the polling stations open.

What prevents someone from voting in my place?

In order to identify you beyond any reasonable doubt on the online voting application, we ask you to enter your voting card number at the beginning of the procedure and to give us your password, your date of birth and your municipality of origin at the end of the procedure. There is no public register containing a list of dates of birth of Geneva citizens or a public list of municipalities of origin.

Will the information I provide be shared?

No. The identification information is compared to that held by the authorities, in order to validate your vote. This information is saved in a separate file, encrypted, and is not connected to the electoral roll.

How can I be sure that my vote is kept secret?

The vote is encrypted from the beginning by your computer. It is saved in a file without any connection to the electoral roll. The votes are decrypted on polling day at the time when they are counted. Until then, no one can know the content of this file. Furthermore, the encryption keys allowing the votes to be seen are held by the Central Electoral Committee. The government cannot see the votes without its help.

How can I be sure that my vote has been counted?

When counting the votes, we check that the electronic ballot box contains as many votes as there are voters having voted online.

Can the State or political parties obtain the results before the official polling date, on the basis of postal and online votes?

In order to decrypt the internet votes, the Central Electoral Committee must be present, which has the keys required to open the electronic ballot box. Postal votes are stored at the Service des votations et élections in ballot boxes that are only opened on the Sunday morning of the ballot, in accordance with the law. No one is told the result of these counts before the Sunday of the ballot at midday, when polling stations close.