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Federal Act
on Political Rights
(PRA)1

of 17 December 1976 (Status as of 23 October 2022)

1 Inserted by No I of the FA of 26 Sept. 2014 (National Council elections), in force since 1 Nov. 2015 (AS 2015 543; BBl 2013 9217).

Art. 49 Invalid ballot papers

1 Bal­lot pa­pers are deemed in­val­id if they:

a.
con­tain the names of more than one per­son;
b.
are not of­fi­cial;
c.
have been com­pleted oth­er than by hand;
d.
con­tain de­fam­at­ory re­marks or ob­vi­ously ir­rel­ev­ant mark­ings;
e.87
...

2 Grounds for in­valid­ity or nullity that re­late to the can­ton­al pro­ced­ure (of­fi­cial vot­ing en­vel­ope, val­id­a­tion stamp, etc.) re­main re­served.88

3 In the case of elec­tron­ic vot­ing pi­lot schemes, the le­gis­la­tion of each can­ton con­duct­ing such a scheme de­term­ines the re­quire­ments ac­cord­ing to which votes are val­idly cast and the grounds for in­valid­ity.89

87Re­pealed by No II of the FA of 22 March 1991, with ef­fect from 1 Jul 1992 (AS 1991 2388; BBl 1990 III 445).

88In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 18 March 1994, in force since 15 Nov. 1994 (AS 1994 2414; BBl 1993 III 445).

89 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 21 June 2002, in force since 1 Jan. 2003 (AS 2002 3193; BBl 2001 6401).