Federal Act
on Political Rights
(PRA)¹

¹ The can­tons shall pre­pare bal­lot pa­pers for all the elect­or­al lists, which each con­tain pre-prin­ted de­tails of the list des­ig­na­tion, any elect­or­al list com­bin­a­tion, the ref­er­ence num­ber and can­did­ate in­form­a­tion (as a min­im­um the sur­names, first names and place of res­id­ence), as well as bal­lot pa­pers that are not pre-prin­ted.

^1bis If the can­ton pre­pares vote re­cord­ing vouch­ers in­stead of bal­lot pa­pers, per­sons eli­gible to vote shall also re­ceive a sum­mary of the de­tails of each of the can­did­ates and of the elect­or­al list des­ig­na­tions, and of any list com­bin­a­tions and list sub-com­bin­a­tions.⁶²

² The can­tons shall ar­range for a com­plete set of all bal­lot pa­pers to be de­livered to each per­son eli­gible to vote at least three weeks and no more than four weeks pri­or to the polling day.⁶³

³ The sig­nat­or­ies may ob­tain ad­di­tion­al pre-prin­ted bal­lot pa­pers at cost price from the can­ton­al chan­celler­ies.