2023-05-25 16:05:26
The Central Electoral Board has decided to consider the postal votes found these days by the Melilla postmen in ordinary mailboxes invalid because they are not certified, as required for this exceptional voting procedure. The Electoral Board of the Melilla Zone led a consultation last Tuesday on what to do with those envelopes addressed to the polling stations and that had appeared in their ordinary mailboxes and about which the Post Office was not very clear about what to do either. The JEC has ratified in its session this Thursday that those votes by mail must now be deposited in the Electoral Board of the Melilla Zone for safekeeping, and not in any polling station. And confirms that they will not be valid.
Correo formulated the first query to the Zone Electoral Board after verifying several of its postmen in Melilla the appearance of those envelopes with votes in ordinary mailboxes. Correos asked the Electoral Board of the Melilla Zone and its president prepared a report in which he stated: “The envelopes that appear adjusted to the official model that appear deposited in mailboxes as ordinary correspondence as of May 24, 2023 will be returned in In any case, to the voters so that they can proceed to their personal remittance at the Post Office within the established period”.
The report of the Zone Electoral Board highlighted the context of controversy and scandal that is being experienced these days in Melilla after the irregular increase in applications for voting by mail and the small number of voters who had cast their vote on May 23 in Post Offices.;
The General Electoral Law stresses in its article 73 that “the envelopes containing the vote by mail must be sent by certified mail and the Post Office will keep this documentation until the day of the vote, when it must be transferred to the corresponding polling stations.”
The Central Electoral Board has concluded in its session this Thursday, precisely within the limit of the legal certification of the vote by mail, that this article ratifies, therefore, that “the vote by mail that is not sent by certified mail will not be valid ”, as it happens in these cases. The JEC stresses that “the envelopes containing the vote by correspondence that appear deposited as ordinary mail in the mailboxes must be sent by the Postal Service to the polling stations or, where appropriate, to the electoral boards constituted at the polling station, unless due to the date and provided the sender is known, it is possible that they are sent again to the voters so that they can send them by certified mail.”
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The JEC has taken into account that in the past, in the event of similar isolated cases, it has been allowed to return those votes by mail sent by regular mail when they contained a known or traceable sender, but in this case, in the context of what happened in Melilla, this action by the Post Office was not appropriate.
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