The Central Electoral Board has agreed to extend the deadline for voting by mail until this Friday at 2:00 p.m. Correos had requested the extension of the deadline early this morning.
“Correos has requested this extension of the term from the Central Electoral Board to facilitate the management of the reissues of electoral documentation to people who indicated a delivery address in their request and then have requested to receive their electoral documentation at another address”, had assured the company in a statement this Thursday.
The initial term for the collection of the votes by post ended tonight. The unions had estimated at the start of the day that 230,000 voters were missing to send their vote on the last day of the deadline. For his part, the deputy director of operations of Correos, José Luis Alonso Nistal, had announced that this morning there were still about 170,000 documents to be collected from post offices. He has explained it this way in an interview on Onda Cero.
But the Central Electoral Board has understood that “in view of the reports issued by the Post Office”, which will be transferred to the interested political parties, “in which it is highlighted that despite the fact that all the electoral documentation has already been delivered , 9.07% of the shipments made were still pending collection by the voters on July 18, and also taking into account that there has been a significant number of re-dispatches of electoral documentation shipments, in accordance with the latest proposal made by Correos and in order to facilitate as much as possible the right to vote of citizens who have opted for this voting procedure, it is agreed to extend the deadline for delivery by voters of voting envelopes at Post Offices until Friday 21 July at 2:00 p.m.
To this end, the JEC points out that “the State Postal and Telegraph Society must exercise extreme diligence to ensure that the envelopes with the vote can be delivered on voting day at the respective polling stations, within the legally established deadlines.”
