The 2.46 million postal votes cast for these elections will force Correos to continue with its enormous work, this time to bring all these votes to the corresponding polling stations, spread throughout the Spanish territory.
To this end, Correos has established a special logistical deployment for this Sunday, in which up to 14,000 company employees will work, to guarantee the correct operation of voting by mail and the collection of the final count on this election day.
Voting by mail has broken all records in these elections, surpassing by 81% the highest figure to date, in the 2016 general elections.
Specifically, the delivery, office and treatment center staff of the public postal company will participate in the conference, while also mobilizing all the necessary vehicles from its fleet.
When the polling stations open, a first team of company personnel will deliver the votes in custody at the 60,314 polling stations distributed in the 22,562 polling stations of the 8,131 municipalities in Spain.
Another group of employees will deliver to the polling stations the votes by mail that could be received during the course of the day. Finally, another team will collect the so-called ‘third envelope’, with the final result of the scrutiny, from the polling stations of each and every one of the polling stations in the country.
For these elections, Correos has carried out more than 21,000 reinforcement contracts, both for offices and for the delivery of shipments and the necessary tasks in logistics centers, opening offices in an extraordinary way on Saturday and Sunday, with an extension of customer service hours until 10:00 p.m. in 654 offices throughout the country, opening on local holidays and the extension of hours throughout the network, particularly in tourist areas where there has been a greater influx.
All of this has translated into 2,622,808 applications for postal votes, which is a historical record, of which 2.47 million have resulted in a vote, the highest figure in the entire democratic period in Spain. Only 150,873 people who applied to vote by mail have not voted.
In this sense, Correos details that the difference between applications and votes admitted has been 5.8%, the lowest ratio recorded in all electoral processes (7.8% in April 2019; 6.6% in June 2016, and an average of 7.3% considering the general elections held since 2008).
Among the tasks entrusted to Correos was also the distribution of census registration cards and electoral propaganda shipments, as well as communications to members of the polling stations, sending the census list to municipalities or collecting documentation on election day.
Thus, the company has distributed the 35.14 million census cards sent by the National Institute of Statistics to the homes of citizens with the right to vote on July 23, which contain the data of their registration in the census, as well as the corresponding school and polling station. In addition, it has distributed the electoral propaganda shipments of the different parties and coalitions that attend the elections.
“In short, Correos has adopted since the call for the general elections on July 23, all the necessary organizational measures to guarantee compliance with the obligations entrusted to it during the electoral processes. The public postal company has put and will continue to put all its technological, logistical and human resources to guarantee citizens the full exercise of their right to vote,” says the public company.
