Half a million people, between holders and substitutes, are summoned first thing in the morning at the polling stations
MADRID, 22 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A total of 180,942 citizens will be in charge this Sunday of attending the 60,314 polling stations throughout the country for the general elections, a task for which each of them will receive 70 euros as a diet, the same amount as in the local elections on May 28.
As in each electoral process, the municipalities were in charge of choosing by lottery the presidents and members who will have to attend the more than 60,000 tables that will be set up in the 22,562 polling stations or polling stations that will be set up. In total, they appointed 180,942 regular members and 361,884 substitutes.
Their work begins at eight in the morning on Sunday, which is when they are summoned. The appointment is for the president and the two elected members, but also for the substitutes (two per position), who have to go to the electoral college in case the incumbents fail, which means a total mobilization of 542,826 people throughout the country.
As this year the elections are held in the middle of July, the Central Electoral Board allowed the use of having hired a trip before the call for the elections as an excuse, as long as it was shown that being at the table would entail economic damage.
The tables are not constituted without having covered the three positions (president and two members) and, if the designated ones have not been presented, the Electoral Board can force the first voters who come to be part of it.
Once the polling stations have been set up, the polling stations will open at nine in the morning, where you can vote until 8:00 p.m. At each table this Sunday there will be two ballot boxes, one to vote for Congress and the other for the Senate.
Once the schools are closed, scrutiny will be carried out at each table. The recount will include the votes that have been sent by mail from Spain and that will be added to the rest. First, the envelopes with the ballots for Congress are opened and, after this process, those for the Senate.
In the count, those Congress envelopes that do not contain any ballots will be considered blank votes. In the Senate, another option is added to this option, that of not indicating any candidate with an ‘x’.
The members of the polling stations will also reject invalid votes, those that are not official ballots and envelopes, ballots without an envelope, those that are manipulated in some way, for example, written; also envelopes with ballots from more than one candidacy (in the case of Congress) or Senate ballots with more crosses than allowed (more than three in the Peninsula, more than two in the case of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Mallorca, Ceuta and Melilla, or more than one in the case of Menorca, Ibiza-Formentera, Fuerteventura, Gomera, Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma).
Once the count is over, the members of the polling stations must complete the minutes and deliver them where appropriate: the president will take the ballot to the first instance or peace courts and a member will wait for a Post Office official to collect a copy of the minutes of constitution of the polling station and the session at the polling station. At the same time, the Interior will have provided the necessary technical means to communicate the data to the Ministry electronically with the idea of ??offering the provisional results on election night.
In addition to having the right to a diet, citizens who have been part of the tables and who are employed by others may see the working day of the following day, that is, Monday, July 24, reduced by five hours.
