The Central Electoral Board has extended the deadline to vote by mail until tomorrow, Friday at 2:00 p.m., as the Post Office had requested this morning.
Correos addressed the Board to request the extension of the term and the body has now accepted the request after a meeting. In this way, the possibility of voting by mail is extended one more day -until tomorrow the 21st at 2:00 p.m.
Correos requested the extension “in an effort to favor the exercise of the right to vote by all interested citizens”, and alleging that it involved “an extraordinary human effort and resources for Correos”.
José Luis Alonso Nistal, Deputy Director of Post Office Operations, assured this morning that there are still “170,000 votes to be collected”, and he affirmed that “everyone be calm” because “the offices are not going to close if you are in line”. The postal body estimates that a large number of people who have not yet gone to the branch could do so in the next few hours.
Yesterday, more than 282,000 people were still waiting to collect the vote by mail for the elections next Sunday at the offices of the postal company, having not been located at home when the postman went to deliver it up to two times, while 2,342,430 documents were delivered by hand to voters, 89%.
