France uses paper ballots and counting, tallying and tabulation entry are done by actual pple. Local guvvy provides transport to whoever can’t travel to or walk up to the voting centers. There is no mail-in, online voting. A representative of the voter can cast that voter’s vote at the center. French expats residing in other countries vote at the embassy or consulate.

An election process using voting machines imo is ‘backward’ in terms of election security and integrity, and these are most important elements for an honest and secure election. Voting machines (that actually have provisions to go online) are globbit machines. Research on past and current management of Smartmatic – leftlib pple.