Federal Act on Political Rights

¹The can­ton shall ex­am­ine the can­did­ate lists and al­low the agent rep­res­ent­ing the sig­nat­or­ies a peri­od with­in which to rec­ti­fy de­fi­cien­cies in the can­did­ate list, al­ter des­ig­na­tions that give rise to con­fu­sion, and nom­in­ate re­place­ment can­did­ates for can­did­ates whose names have been of­fi­cially de­leted.¹

²The re­place­ment can­did­ates must con­firm in writ­ing that they ac­cept their nom­in­a­tion. In the ab­sence of such con­firm­a­tion or where the rel­ev­ant name already ap­pears on an­oth­er can­did­ate list or the can­did­ate is not eli­gible for elec­tion, the re­place­ment can­did­ate is de­leted from the list.² Un­less the agent for the can­did­ate list re­quests oth­er­wise, re­place­ment can­did­ates are entered at the end of the can­did­ate list.

³In the event of any de­fi­ciency not be­ing rec­ti­fied with­in the peri­od al­lowed, the can­did­ate list is deemed in­val­id. If the de­fi­ciency relates only to one can­did­ate, their name is simply de­leted.

⁴No can­did­ate list may be fur­ther amended from the second Monday fol­low­ing the fi­nal date for sub­mis­sion of can­did­ate lists. The fore­go­ing does not ap­ply to the of­fi­cial de­clar­a­tion of the in­valid­ity of mul­tiple can­did­a­cies sub­sequently dis­covered (Art. 32a). Can­ton­al le­gis­la­tion may re­duce to one week the peri­od al­lowed for rec­ti­fic­a­tion.³