Madrid (EFE) financial harm or serious disruption, while tightening the requirements for voting by mail.
As of July 3, the date on which the vote by mail can be sent, it will be mandatory to show the DNI or any other similar identification at the time of sending the ballot and depositing the vote, a requirement that had already been approved for the Melilla voters in the last elections of May 28 and that now extends to all of Spain.
In the event that the voter is not the one who deposits the ballot at the Post Office, they must give a signed authorization and a photocopy of their ID to the person in charge of carrying out this procedure.
Vacations, excuse if they had been contracted before
Given the coincidence of the electoral advance with the vacation period of many citizens, the JEC has also decided to approve an ex officio instruction that considers as a valid excuse for not being part of the polling stations having hired before the date of the election call a holiday stay, or if the day coincides with that displacement.
If the cancellation causes economic damage or serious disruption to the applicant, “it can be considered as an excuse” by the Zone Electoral Boards (JEZ) “as long as the full integration of the polling stations is ensured.”
The citizen must prove with documentation the contracting of his vacations before May 30 as well as the economic damage or disorders caused by having been called to the table.
deadlines
The draw to be held by the municipalities for the formation of the tables will be between June 24 and 28 and the notification will be made within a period of three days from that draw.
The voters will have seven days to carry out their allegations, which will be resolved five days after their presentation.
The two new resolutions of the JEC go beyond what is established in the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) and the decision to admit new allegations for not going to a polling station on the occasion of the holidays has come after the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) asked on May 30 to make the criteria more flexible because “holidays are a family event of special relevance and that cannot be postponed.”
“Otherwise, it can cause significant economic damage,” argued the OCU, which called on the Zone Electoral Boards to act in this way to avoid an avalanche of claims for cancellation of trips.