Preparation of electronic voting

(1) The State Electoral Office makes the electronic voting system usable not later than by the tenth day before the election day.

(2) The State Electoral Office organises the entry of the amendments to the list of voters in the electronic voting system at least once a day.

(3) Prior to the start of electronic voting, the State Electoral Office configures the electronic voting system, the voter application and the vote verification application, sets up publicly an encryption key for encrypting electronic votes and a vote-opening key for decrypting the votes. The State Electoral Office shares the means of access to the vote-opening key with the members of the National Electoral Committee and the State Electoral Office.

(4) Prior to the start of electronic voting, the State Electoral Office organises a public test voting. During the test voting, the State Electoral Office tests the casting of electronic votes, the use of the access tools set up and the determination of the results of the electronic voting and checks the integrity of the electronic voting system. After the test voting, the electronic voting system is brought to the condition which existed prior to the test voting.

(5) The voter application is created for the most widespread operating systems and the vote verification application for the most widespread mobile operating systems. The voter application may also be created for mobile operating systems. Prior to each election, the National Electoral Committee determines the operating systems for which the applications are created.

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(6) The voter application has support for the visually impaired.

(7) Prior to the start of electronic voting, the State Electoral Office publishes the voter application, the vote verification application and the data necessary for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of the website on the election website.

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