You must be alone when you select your ballot papers

When you vote, you must be alone when you select your ballot papers. The ballot papers are in a screened-off area, so you can make your selection in privacy.

The polling staff set out the ballot papers

In order to protect voter secrecy, only the polling staff can set out the ballot papers at voting locations and early voting locations in Sweden’s municipalities and missions abroad.

You must be alone at the voting booth

When you have selected your ballot papers, you should prepare your vote. Under Swedish law, you must be alone at the voting booth.

You can only bring someone with you into the screened-off area if you need help with selecting ballot papers or preparing your vote due to a disability, for example.

No one can trace your vote back to you

When you have prepared your vote, the polling staff will take receipt of it and put it in the ballot box with the other votes.
The polling staff will ensure that your vote is kept safe in the ballot box until it’s counted. This is the case whether you vote early or at a voting location on election day.

When your ballot envelope is opened and your vote is counted, no one will be able to trace your vote back to you. This is because all of the ballot envelopes will have been mixed together in order to guarantee voter secrecy.

If someone disrupts order

Voting staff may reprimand any individual who disrupts order at a voting location or doesn’t follow the instructions. This might be the case if a voter behaves in a way that disturbs other voters, for example.

Film about voter secrecy

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