More than 984,000 citizens (especially 984,108), including 24,380 Alicante residents, sent their votes by mail for the district and municipal elections to be held on Sunday, 28 May. According to the extension decision taken by the Presidency of the Assembly, the voting period ended on Thursday, 25th. Central Election Board. These figures represent 6.4% more than the number of votes received by mail in the previous regional and municipal elections held on 26 May 2019, which also coincided with the European Parliament elections.
Correos has provided the necessary resources to ensure compliance with its obligations. public service Specifically entrusted to him in the selection processes, he executed 2,500 reinforcement contracts both for the offices and for the delivery of consignments and necessary tasks in logistics centres.
extraordinary opening
In addition, it has implemented other measures such as the extraordinary opening on the 18th. 25 May in the offices of towns that celebrate their local holidays on those days to facilitate the process of postal voting. The hours of public attention have been extended in many offices across the country, such as the office in Melilla, which is open from 8 am to 10 pm; offices around the village of El Rocío, which opened half an hour earlier and closed half an hour later, or all offices in the capital city of Madrid and in towns with a population of more than 50,000 in the Community of Madrid. All this to make voting management by mail as easy and convenient as possible.
Correos also made an effort to coordinate the postal logistics network and use all necessary means to ensure that the votes accepted at any of the public service points in Spain are delivered at the relevant ballot box next Sunday.
For the 28 May election day, the task of distributing the mailed votes to the ballot boxes was given to the public postal company. To this end, it will set up a dedicated logistics distribution consisting of multiple components. 12,000 professionalswill mobilize all the means necessary for the development of the fleet’s mission, and between delivery personnel, offices and treatment centers. When the ballot boxes are opened, a first team from the postal company will deliver the votes in the ballot box at 60,587 ballot boxes distributed in 22,916 ballot boxes of 8,131 municipalities in Spain.
Another group of employees will deliver the votes that can be received during the day to the polling stations by post. Finally, another team will collect the so-called “third envelope” with the final result of the review. voting stations every polling station in the country.
Partnership
Cooperation in regional and municipal elections 28 May It also covers the distribution of census registration cards and election propaganda posts, in addition to communication with polling station members and sending the census list to municipalities.
35,531,011 identity cards sent by the State Company were distributed. National Institute of Statistics to the homes of eligible citizens next Sunday, May 28, containing data from the electoral college and the corresponding polling station, as well as their records for the census.
In addition, during the election campaign period; Mail distributes election propaganda posts of different parties and coalitions participating in the elections.