Madrid (EFE)
In these draws, a president and two members are elected for each polling station, as well as two other substitutes for each of them, who are given an instruction manual on their functions.
As established by law, it is mandatory to be part of a polling station, with few exceptions, so being absent on election day can lead to a prison sentence of three months to a year or a fine.
Claims and their deadlines
The Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) establishes that, although the formation of polling stations is the responsibility of the municipalities, it must be done under the supervision of the Zone Electoral Boards (JEZ), which also have the last word to approve or not the allegations that the designees may present.
And it is that given the coincidence of the elections with the vacation period, the Central Electoral Board (JEC) has dictated that citizens who are called to the tables can be exempted if they have contracted their vacations before May 30, the date on which published the electoral call, as long as the zone boards see the full integration of the tables ensured.
The allegations can be made within a period of seven days from the arrival of the notification, which can be extended until July 1, and the zone board will resolve with a limit of five days.
Few can be freed
Those citizens with the right to vote who are under 70 years old and know how to read and write have entered the draws, although from the age of 65 they can resign if they are elected; They have a period of seven days to do so.
Also excluded are those who reach the age of majority in the period between the formation of the lists of voters and the vote.
The members of the tables will charge 70 euros
The members of the tables will receive a diet of 70 euros each, which is the same amount that was paid in the last municipal and regional elections, 5 euros more than in the general ones of 2019.
The Ministry of the Interior plans to set up around 60,340 polling stations throughout Spain for the 23J elections and install some 210,000 ballot boxes and 59,000 booths.