Question 26895 — elections and referendums

Summary

Mr. François-Michel Lambert alerts the Minister of the Interior to the aging of the voting machine fleet and to the risks it poses to the smooth running of elections in France. In 2007, following work involving the Council of State, representatives of local authorities and users, the general secretariat of defense and national security and the Ministry of the Interior, a moratorium aimed at freezing the perimeter of municipalities authorized to equip themselves with voting machines was adopted. Since 2008, moreover, the State no longer approves any voting machine, whatever it may be. The consequences of these choices are none other than the aging and non-renewal of voting machines used in polling stations that are equipped with them, and, consequently, the alteration of the security of the existing system. The technical obsolescence of the current fleet makes Indeed, it poses a high cyber risk and could undermine the smooth running of elections in France. In Issy-les-Moulineaux, the i-Votronic voting machine used since 2007 only allows data to be transmitted via MoDem, a system which does not in any way secure the transmitted data. In July 2019, the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior insisted on the “undeniable advantages” but also on the “ proven major disadvantages" of the voting machine, and underlined the Government's desire to "reconcile voting and new technologies" through the continuation of its examination work on the framework applicable to the voting machine. He then asks him what he plans to do to resolve the major problem of the aging of the voting machine fleet in France, which is becoming an emergency as the elections approach. municipal.

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