Since last April 3, the period to request the vote by mail in municipal elections has been open. However, perhaps the previous call for the general elections on April 28 has caused many Sevillians who are abroad or who will not be able to go to the polling station that day to have not applied for the process yet.
According to the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG), the period begins the same day that the call for elections is announced, therefore, in the case of municipal elections, this runs from April 3 to May 16.
However, the next step is the receipt by the voter of the necessary documentation to exercise the vote by mail. And this has begun to produce this week. In theory, between May 6 and 19, voters will receive this correspondence. Once they have it and fill it out properly, they will have to send it by mail and, for this, the deadline is May 22.
Is this a flexible termOn some occasion the Central Electoral Board has extended that term. This is what happened in the last general elections, in which citizens could vote by mail up to two days before. The Holy Week festivity delayed the delivery of the documentation, the post offices collapsed and there were long queues. And that is why it was decided to extend the calendar.
How to vote by mail in the municipal
If you are in Spain but you are not going to be able to vote in your school, in any post office you can find the form to request the vote.
Then you must request a certificate of registration in the census.where do you get
At any post office, proving your identity with an official document and before May 16. The process is free and they will send you the documentation to cast the vote by certified mail .When you receive these documents you must put the ballot paper in a sealed envelope. Take to any post office the official model envelope addressed to the polling station, with the certificate of registration in the electoral roll and the envelope with the vote. The office will process the shipment as certified and urgent mail , without costing you anything.
If the person who is going to vote by mail is sick or disabled, they must accredit this situation with an official medical certificate, which will be included together with the application form to vote by mail and the process can be done by another person who has been accredited before a notary. for it.
Vote by mail from abroad
The steps are different if you reside temporarily abroad or have your residence established outside of Spain. In both cases, the deadline to request a vote expired on April 28.
Those who have already done so must have already received the documentation and also have until May 22 to send the vote through the insular office so that it, in turn, is sent to the corresponding electoral table in Spain.
The procedure is more complex for those who reside outside of Spain. The first thing they have to check is whether or not they are registered with the Consulate and, therefore, appear on the electoral roll. If so, the dates are the same as for those temporarily residing abroad. And they will be able to cast their vote by sending the documentation to the consular office or by appearing there between May 22 and 24 to exercise the vote in the polls enabled for it.
