Valladolid/Madrid (EFE) In 2019, there were more than 84,000 applications and 76,591 in the last municipal elections on May 28, 2023, of which more than 71,400 resulted in votes.
In the national set, Correos has admitted 2,622,808 requests to vote for the next elections of 23J until yesterday Thursday that the term ended, which represents a historical record and an increase of 94.71% compared to the elections of April 28 of 2019 (1,346,995).
In a statement, the company details that of the applications to vote by mail, 1,924,976 have been submitted in person and 697,832 electronically.
In Castilla y León, 136,702 applications have been in person and 42,144 online.
Valladolid adds 45,709 of the requests
By provinces, in Ávila 6,794 face-to-face applications and 2,151 telematics have been submitted; in Burgos 23,178 and 6,288, in León 23,746 and 7,269; in Palencia 10,101 and 2,378 telematics, in Salamanca 18,190 and 6,334; in Segovia 6,968 and 2,312; in Soria 5,045 and 1,573; in Valladolid 34,136 and 11,573 and in Zamora 8,536 and 2,266.
A total of 2,083,576 voters are called to vote in Castilla y León in the general elections on July 23, 1,922,177 residents in the Community and 161,399 abroad, of which 71,732 will do so for the first time in this type of election. elections after turning 18 years from the previous call of November 2019.
Those 178,846 applications are 8.5% of the voters of Castilla y León
Now, for these elections, those 178,846 applications represent 8.5 percent of the total number of voters in Castilla y León.
In November 2019, in the absence of collecting the data for the last day, Correos detailed that the Castilian-Leonese people who had sent their vote by mail, that is, they voted after requesting to do so, were 59,880.
Once the ballot papers have been received, applicants for voting by mail will have to deliver them, proving their identity, at the Post Office before next July 20.
On July 16, the last day for the Census to deliver the documentation to the Post Office
After verifying the registration of the applicants in the Census, the Provincial Delegations send the shipments with the documentation, which must arrive at the Post Offices by July 16 so that it can be distributed among citizens as they are received.
Postmen will make at least two attempts to deliver the documentation in hand to the addressee. If this has not been possible, they will leave a notice for you to pick it up at your office, where the staff will verify the identity of the voter by means of the DNI, Passport or Driving License and will write down the number of the identification document attesting to the receipt of the envelopes. .
When the documentation does not arrive
In the event that the voter has not received their electoral documentation and is going to change their address, they must locate the registration number of their shipment on the Electoral Census website and go, as soon as possible, to a post office to request the reissue of documents and their delivery at the new address.
This registration number also allows the voter to check the status of the shipment in the Correos web locator http://www.correos.es.
The deposit of votes ends on July 20
The applicant has until Thursday, July 20, to deposit the envelope with their vote at any Post Office throughout Spain, during its opening hours.
As agreed by the Central Electoral Board, the voter must identify himself with the ID, passport, driver’s license, residence card or any other valid document to cast the vote.
proxy vote
If a vote by mail has been requested and it is not possible to go personally to the Post Office to deposit it, another person can be authorized to deliver it.
To carry out this procedure, Correos recommends using the authorization model that can be downloaded from the web http://www.correos.es.
Don’t wait until the last day
Correos recommends citizens not to wait until the last day and to take advantage of post office hours to cast their vote as soon as possible.
Correos will open 111 post offices in Castilla y León this Saturday between nine and two in the afternoon, and on Sunday the main offices of Ávila, Burgos, León, Ponferrada, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora with the same schedule to attend to the efforts related to voting by mail for the general elections on July 23.
On Saturday, in the case of offices located in shopping centers, they will open according to business hours.
All these extraordinary openings will be made exclusively to meet the needs of citizens related to the electoral process (delivery of electoral documentation and admission of voting by mail).
In addition, the distribution of electoral mailings has been reinforced, with extraordinary deliveries on Saturday, July 15, and Sunday, July 16, in those areas where the greatest number of electoral mailings are being received.
In some towns that celebrate a local holiday next Monday, July 17, electoral mailings will also be distributed, even if it is a non-working day in the respective municipality.EFE