Federal Act on Political Rights

¹After ex­piry of the ref­er­en­dum peri­od, the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall es­tab­lish wheth­er the ref­er­en­dum re­quest lists con­tain the re­quired num­ber of val­id sig­na­tures. If less than half of the quor­um re­quired un­der the Con­sti­tu­tion has been achieved, a no­tice shall be pub­lished in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette stat­ing simply that the peri­od al­lowed for the col­lec­tion of sig­na­tures has ex­pired. If half or more of the re­quired quor­um has been achieved, the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall is­sue a rul­ing con­firm­ing wheth­er or not the re­quest for a ref­er­en­dum has been suc­cess­ful.¹

²The fol­low­ing are in­val­id:

a.²

sig­na­tures on lists that do not ful­fil the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 60;

b.³

sig­na­tures by per­sons whose eli­gib­il­ity to vote is not cer­ti­fied;

c.

sig­na­tures on lists that have been sub­mit­ted after ex­piry of the ref­er­en­dum peri­od.

³The Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall pub­lish the rul­ing on the suc­cess of the ref­er­en­dum re­quest in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette to­geth­er with de­tails of the num­bers of val­id and in­val­id sig­na­tures for each can­ton.⁴