Madrid (EFE).- Today, Thursday, is the deadline for voters who have not yet deposited their vote in the Post Office to cast it, and the postal entity guarantees that “no one will be left without voting”.
Although the official closing time will be ten o’clock at night, Correos has indicated that if there are people in any office waiting to be attended, it will be so “until the last vote is deposited” for the general elections this Sunday, July 23.
Correos will open 654 offices throughout Spain and will maintain the extension of hours that has been applied since July 13.
The postal entity has already made 100 percent of the electoral documentation available to voters, although there are still applicants to collect their envelopes in some offices.
Until Wednesday there were 282,000 electoral documents pending to be collected, and voters can do it today and later cast their vote in the office.
Historical record
The coincidence of the elections with the summer holidays has raised the number of requests to the historical record of 2.6 million, 80.45% more than the requests that were registered in the general elections of June 2016, which until now had marked the maximum vote by mail in democracy.
Voters will have to deliver the envelopes and ballot papers in person, proving their identity through the DNI or another type of official document that allows their identification before casting the vote, as stipulated by the Central Electoral Board as a result of the frauds denounced in some points of Spanish territory during the last municipal and regional elections.
Once the term to deposit the postal vote ends, Correos will keep the millions of envelopes and ballots sent by Spaniards to the presidents of the polling stations until Sunday 23, when it will transfer them to the 22,562 electoral locations distributed throughout the territory.
Last day to vote in consulates and embassies
Also this Thursday is the end of the term for voting in person at a ballot box at embassies, consulates and other authorized centers abroad for Spaniards residing abroad.
This option is available to more than 2.3 million compatriots who habitually reside abroad and who can vote in this way without having to request it in advance, as these are the first general elections in which the requested vote is no longer valid.
The provincial delegations of the Electoral Census Office have sent in recent weeks to the addresses of those 2,325,310 voters registered as of March 1 in the Census of Absent Resident Spaniards (CERA) both the ballot papers for them to choose their votes for Congress and the Senate. as the census certificate.
They have also been able to download the ballots from the internet, since this was another novelty of the last reform of the Organic Law regulating the General Electoral Regime (Loreg), as well as the suppression of the requested vote.
Another novelty was the extension of the time in which voting at the ballot box is available, with more days (the polls have been open since Saturday the 15th) and more hours, since the law has established that the polls have to be available both in the morning and in the afternoon, typical of the country in which they are located.