Correos has just announced that throughout today it will send the ballots to 100% of the citizens who have requested to vote by mail in the elections next Sunday, July 23. This morning there were some 450,000 citizens who still lacked electoral documentation, of which some 400,000 had it available to pick it up at their post office and the rest had it delivered.
Voters who have not yet received their ballots can check at this address the status of sending their electoral documentation by entering their ID and the locator they were given when requesting a vote by mail.
The law establishes that postal workers must hand-deliver the electoral documentation at the indicated address, but after two unsuccessful delivery attempts it is sent to the nearest post office. Yesterday, from seven in the afternoon until the closing of the offices at 10:00 p.m., more than 50,000 electoral documents were collected that were notified in the offices pending removal by the voters, Correos affirms.
The public company has been in the spotlight during this campaign due to the avalanche of requests to vote remotely in this call. More than 2.6 million people have requested this modality of voting on 23-J, a figure that far exceeds the record so far, the 1.4 million requests that were reached in the general elections of June 26, 2016 .
Voters can pick up the documentation at their office until Thursday the 20th. This is also the last day to cast their vote by mail, a process that can be done at any post office. Due to the vote-buying scandal in the May municipal elections, the Central Electoral Board has ruled that voters must identify themselves with a valid document when they go to vote.
For next Sunday’s election day, Correos has planned a special logistical deployment, made up of more than 14,000 professionals, including delivery personnel, offices and treatment centers, who will be in charge of delivering the votes cast by mail at the polling stations.
