Federal Act on Political Rights

¹After ex­piry of the peri­od al­lowed for the col­lec­tion of sig­na­tures, the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall es­tab­lish wheth­er the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive has ob­tained 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 Coun­cil shall is­sue a rul­ing con­firm­ing wheth­er or not the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive has been suc­cess­ful.¹

²The fol­low­ing are in­val­id:

a.

sig­na­tures on lists that do not ful­fil the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 68;

b.

sig­na­tures of sig­nat­or­ies whose eli­gib­il­ity to vote is not cer­ti­fied;

c.

sig­na­tures on lists that have been sub­mit­ted after the peri­od al­lowed for the col­lec­tion of sig­na­tures.²

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