Madrid (EFE).- The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has warned that possible vacancies in the polling stations for the general elections on Sunday, July 23, can be filled with the first voters to arrive or with substitutes from nearby polling stations.
This has been indicated by the JEC in a resolution released this Friday, two days before the elections and in which it reminds the Zone Electoral Boards in charge of constituting the polling stations that if the present and alternate members of a polling station do not attend, they must “freely designate the people who will constitute it”.
In this sense, the JEC recalls article 80.4 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) which specifies that the first voters who come to vote could be called to those vacancies, although another possibility is that substitutes be chosen from other tables that may have been constituted in the same electoral college or in another nearby one.
The JEC already agreed to this in another resolution of 2021 in which it points out that it could be done “provided that the zone boards communicate in advance to the substitutes of any polling station that they must remain in the polling stations until they are told to do so.”
If a voter is elected to a polling station other than the one to which he was initially assigned, he will have to exercise his right to vote at the polling station in which he is registered, guaranteeing that the polling station he is a part of has two members during the voting period.
The JEC will communicate this resolution to the Provincial Electoral Boards so that they can forward it to the Zone Electoral Boards.