2023-06-06 20:34:38
The next July 23th, Millions of Spaniards plan to enjoy the long-awaited summer vacation. What they did not count on is that the President of the Government Pedro Sanchez it would advance the general elections to that date and the appointment with the polls would take place in the middle of the summer season. From this moment on, doubts about how to vote in the case of being on vacation, how to request a vote by mail or the uncertainty that we will have to be at a polling station have been growing among the population. Among this atmosphere of general surprise, various hoaxes have appeared circulating on social networks and through WhatsApp. From ‘Check A3N’ We deny them so you don’t bite.
The video of the punch in a post office
On the last municipal and regional elections of the 28M Several cases of vote buying have come to light in Melilla, Albudeite (Murcia), and Mojácar (Almería) that have left numerous detainees. In the midst of this breeding ground, the hoaxes and the electoral punch threats They have only grown.
Exist a video circulating on social media And through WhatsApp in which supposedly it is seen how a woman comes with a mysterious “bill” of votes to a post office. When the woman is asked about all those votes, there is a confusion with the office employee and other citizens. The authors of the hoax attribute the video to an event that would have taken place in the elections of the 28M.
However, this video is an old acquaintance of the authors of the ‘fake news’ that It has already circulated in other calls of elections. From ‘Verifica A3N’ we affirm that It is false that the images are related with the last call for elections and that it is a event that took place in 2015 in which an attempt was made to denounce a punch that finally became clear that it had not taken place.
Does requesting a vote by mail exempt you from being part of a polling station?
He electoral advance has caught the political board by surprise and the citizens who see in the absentee ballot as the only option not to change their summer plans and to be able to leave their city. However, uneasiness flies over the vacationers in July in case capricious chance causes them to be summoned to form part of a polling station. It is precisely this fear that has encouraged a false belief circulating on social media. Some users affirm that if the vote by mail is requested, the citizen is exempted from being part of a polling station.
It is a false information. Request to vote by mail does not exclude the citizen from appearing on the census list electoral and can be chosen in the lottery to be part of the polling stations as holders or reserves.
The WhatsApp message that ensures that it will be impossible to vote by mail if you are not at home
In recent days thousands of people have received on their mobile phones the same message ‘forwarded many times’ through WhatsApp. This is a text that ensures that in the next general elections on 23J it will be impossible to vote by mail if the citizen is not in the place of residence During the month of July. “The only option is to be at home on July 23 to vote in person or abstain,” said message said.
From ‘Verify A3N’ we confirm that this message is a hoax. First of all, the You can also request a vote by mail online. and the face-to-face application can be made from any office of mails. In addition, in the options that Correos gives us, it is possible to provide any delivery address to bring us the documentation. And if we are going to take the vote personally we can do it in any office and we will not need to identify ourselves.
The hoax of the lack of custody of the vote by mail
Some users assure in their social media profiles that since 2016 The Civil Guard does not guard the vote by mail and this circumstance makes it “very easy to open envelopes and change the ballots.” From ‘Verifica A3N’ we affirm that this information is false. It is not true that the Civil Guard has stopped guarding the vote by mail since 2016. The Civil Guard has never guarded voting by mail, as can be seen in the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime.
Es Post office who is in charge of the custody of the votes that are arriving during the voting period. Therefore, there has not been any change in the law that makes this electoral call less vigilant of voting by mail.
This user shared a message on his Twitter profile on June 1, 2023 in which he foresaw a “huge punch” that would give victory to the left in the next general elections on 23J. This message was accompanied by a video reflecting an alleged case of vote-by-mail fraud. It is an old video, from 2015, in which an attempt was made to verify a case of punching that finally did not exist.
This same video has been shared in mass mailing chains via WhatsApp after the electoral advance announced by Pedro Sánchez for next July 23.
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