The municipality of Puerto Seguro, in Salamanca, will have to repeat the vote of the last municipal elections of 28-M after the Electoral Board decided so after learning that the ballot box had left the polling place for, minutes after being “house to house”, return to the polling station.
This has been pointed out by sources of the Socialist Party, whose representatives were the ones who denounced what happened to the Civil Guard, when, as they have detailed, the mayor, together with the president of the table, took the ballot box to other places in the town, in principle , so that people with mobility problems could vote.
Given these facts, they informed the Civil Guard that the polling station had been temporarily closed and the deposit of votes was not in the polling place, an incident that they later forwarded to the Electoral Board, which has determined that the process will have to be repeated
The PSOE spokesman in the Provincial Council of Salamanca, Fernando Rubio, has regretted what happened. “The mayor of Puerto Seguro, at a given moment, decides with the president of the Electoral Board of Puerto Seguro, to close the polling station for no less than 20 minutes and go see certain people who have verified that, at the time they out, I hadn’t voted”.
“They go house to house with the ballot box so they can vote. In short, it is an absolute delirium, because they close the school and violate the principle of custody of the vote,” Rubio continued in statements to Europa Press.
“It is unjustifiable, it is delirium, a tremendous caciquismo, it transgresses any principle, because it is that even people who are prevented from voting, people with disabilities, with reduced mobility, these people know that they can vote by mail with enough time and that it is the postman himself who is going to ask him that, they no longer have to leave his house”, he pointed out before noting that this practice carried out in Puerto Seguro can “coerce the staff in a bad way”.
“We want people to vote, but there may be someone who has decided not to vote and the president of the table and the mayor find themselves asking for a vote at the door of their house on the same day,” he concluded before influencing that that ballot box was outside the school and without custody and that “nobody knows what happened to that ballot box.”
