In France, 3 cities (Issy-les-Moulineaux, Le Havre and Aix-sur-Vienne) are testing online registration on the electoral roll. Six month after the beginning of the experiment, 20% of new voters in Issy-les-Moulineaux have used this online service to register.
In France, you must be registered on the electoral roll of your city before December 31 to participate in elections of the following year.
It is easy to use the online service: you have just connect to the municipal website or the national Monservicepublic.fr (My public services), fill out the form and scan a proof of postal address and of your identity.
The three cities have been selected by the French Ministries of Interior and Finance to test the online service, which could be generalized in case of success to all French cities by the end of 2010.
In France, about 2 million people are registered each year on the electoral roll. To do this, it is necessary to go to the city hall and fill out a paper form, or to send a form by postal mail. A formality considered burdensome and not very modern both by users as municipal services, faced the end of the year in queues that stretch before the city hall at the close of registration on December 31.
The opportunity to register via Internet is part of the first measures taken under the program "Together simplify" driven by Eric Woerth, Minister of Budget, Public Accounts, Public Service and Reform of state. The simplification of administrative procedures is one of the priorities of the modernization of public services expected by users. It is reflected in particular by developing new online services.
