Cádiz, (EFE).- The members of the Navy ships’ endowments have not forgotten the “mission” of voting in the next general elections, even if they are in the Indian Ocean, like the Navarra frigate, or concluding a new circumnavigation of the world, like the Juan Sebastián Elcano, which will arrive tomorrow at the port of Cádiz.
To facilitate this vote by mail, Defense develops a process in which it uses the logistics chain that usually takes the supplies directly to the ships or to the ports where they are collected.
The petitions of those who want to request the vote are collected on board, sent to Defense and processed before the Central Electoral Board, which, after verifying their identities, sends the documentation back to Defense so that this department can take care of getting them on board.
An election day is held there and when the sealed bags are over they make their way back.
In the case of the Navy school ship Juan Sebastian El Cano, which arrives at the port of Cádiz tomorrow after one hundred and eighty-nine days of navigation on its XCV Training Cruise, the processes could have been varied.
Enough time to vote on a Navy ship
After navigating a route that has taken them through Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Punta Arenas (Chile), El Callao (Peru), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Puerto Limón (Costa Rica), Pensacola (USA) and New York (USA), the students, 74 midshipmen from classes 425 of the General Corps and 155 of the Marine Corps, disembarked on the 12th of July in Marín (Pontevedra) to join the Military Naval School again.
After disembarking, they have a few days’ leave and enough time to get to vote at the polling station that corresponds to them.
Most of the 167 sailors of the permanent crew of the brigantine-schooner live in the province of Cádiz or, at least, when they are released on Friday night, they plan to have time to get home on Sunday and exercise their right to vote on Sunday at their polling stations.
Only 20 of them who do not live in the province have exercised their right to vote by mail, according to Navy sources.
In the last municipal and regional elections on May 28, Defense provided the electoral documentation to the 2,282 military applicants for postal votes belonging to the Armies and the Navy, who were deployed in 13 areas of operations and on 12 Navy ships. EFE