Madrid (EFE).- Correos has admitted 2,622,808 vote requests for the next elections on 23J until the Thursday that the deadline expired, which represents an increase of 94.71% compared to the elections on April 28, 2019.
Of the total, 84,220 applications have been registered in Castilla-La Mancha.
By provinces, from Castilla-La Mancha 16,483 have been received in Albacete; 20,051 in Ciudad Real; 8,303 in Cuenca; 12,675 in Guadalajara and 26,714 in Toledo.
In addition, at the national level, of the applications for voting by mail, 1,924,976 have been submitted in person and 697,832 electronically.
Once the ballot papers have been received, applicants for voting by mail will have to hand them in, proving their identity, at the Post Office before July 20.
The volume of requests to vote by mail received is 80.45% higher than those of the general elections of June 26, 2016 (1,453,446) which, until now, marked the historical record of requests in democratic electoral processes Spanish.
According to Correos forecasts, throughout this Friday a total of 1,885,223 electoral documents will have been made available to voters.
This is a delivery ratio that is comparatively higher than that of other processes, including the regional and municipal elections on May 28.
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 until July 16 so that it can be distributed among the citizens as it receives them.
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 documents. 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.