The device must allowcommunicate better» important information for voters, as announced by Marlène Schiappa at Figaro in December.
Each person receiving their electoral card this year will be able to see that a QR Code has slipped into the first page of the title. A small square now well known to the French, after two years of pandemic.
This novelty, announced in December by Marlène Schiappa at Figaro aims to reconcile voters with the vote before the presidential election on 10th and 24th April next.
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Concretely, passing this code in front of the camera of his smartphone will send the user to the site elections.interieur.gouv.fr. A web page of the Ministry of the Interior which brings together all the information and “election-related procedures»: check their electoral situation, find their polling station, register on the electoral lists and request a power of attorney. Answers to practical questions that the 48 million voters may ask themselves.
“[Avec ce dispositif] we are also going to communicate better and more on all these procedures so that voters have all the necessary information at their disposal“, specified at the time the Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship.
No data collected
The news of this addition made Florian Philippot, the Patriotes presidential candidate, jump. “Addition of a QR code on the voter card… It seems to prepare the ground for a future ‘Citizen Pass’?!“, he worries on Twitter.
But unlike the QR Code of the health pass, it does not host any personal information about the voter. It simply refers to a link.
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Note that the electoral card is not essential to go to the voting booth. It suffices to be registered on the electoral lists and to present an identity document (identity card, passport, driving licence) to an assessor at the polling station.