Postal voting: Mailing envelopes began – The message voters are getting – 2024-05-15 07:35:50

Particular envelopes have been despatched to voters who registered on the platform to vote within the European elections by postal vote.

Many citizens have already acquired a related informational message.

The message voters are getting

“Pricey voter with electoral code …, we inform you that the merchandise … together with your postal vote has been despatched. Particular directions are enclosed,” reads the message voters have acquired on their cell phones.

What number of will vote by letter?

In line with a put up by Mrs. Kerameos, the entire quantity reached 202,556, with nearly all of them being inside borders. To be exact, 153,322 are from the inside and 49,234 from overseas.

Expatriate Greeks will vote from 128 completely different nations with the bulk coming from Germany, Nice Britain and the USA. Particularly, the most important variety of registrations was recorded in Germany (9,578), the UK (9,090), the USA (3,857), Belgium (3,491), the Netherlands (3,119) and Cyprus (2,808).

The method intimately

What does the postal vote envelope comprise and when is it despatched to the voter?

• The file is distributed to the voter by the Ministry of the Inside no later than 20 days earlier than the elections with the duty to obtain it both by the voter or by a 3rd celebration expressly licensed to obtain it.
• The voter is knowledgeable by electronic mail concerning the sending of the envelope and with a hyperlink to see the sending course of (monitoring).
• The envelope consists of: Postal vote return envelope, poll paper, voting envelope, instruction sheet, record of candidates and declaration type.
• The voting envelopes can be fully anonymized and can have a particular characteristic in order that they can’t be falsified.

What’s going to the postal vote poll seem like?

• The postal vote poll is completely different. It’s uniform and printed underneath the accountability of the Ministry of the Inside.
• Within the first view it has the combos and all of the events and coalitions of events which might be candidates, the place the voters will put a cross the place they select.
• On the second web page he selects the MEP candidates of the mix he has most well-liked by choosing the candidate’s quantity.
• The order during which the combos are listed is the order during which they have been introduced by the A1 Division of the Supreme Courtroom.

How does the voter vote?

• The voter reads the directions type fastidiously. He fills within the utility – accountable declaration and writes his particulars within the postal vote return envelope.
• He has a photocopy of his identification card or Greek passport or Greek driver’s license prepared. He chooses the mix he desires and the MEP candidates.
• He places the poll within the particular voting envelope and closes it. He places the voting envelope, the applying – accountable declaration and the proof of identification into the return envelope and closes it. Sends the envelope to the pre-filled deal with.

What occurs subsequent after the voter votes and sends the envelope?

• Envelopes should arrive on the postal poll assortment level by 5pm on the day earlier than the election. The voter is chargeable for sending the envelope on time.
• Their envelopes are acquired by the Particular Committee for the Assortment of Postal Votes, which is shaped as quickly because the mailing of envelopes begins. There are 10 electoral divisions corresponding to every assortment committee. The three-member committee consists of the President (first occasion decide, first occasion prosecutor, CoE and ElSyn rapporteur) and two judicial officers who obtain the mail vote return envelopes and test the voter’s registration within the mail vote lists.
• The voter is knowledgeable by electronic mail of the receipt of the envelope. After noting on the digital platform the receipt of the postal vote, they place the postal vote return envelope within the particular poll field of the electoral division to which the voter belongs.
• The counting of postal votes takes place concurrently the votes in the remainder of the nation.

The place are the envelopes despatched by voters collected?

• Postal vote return envelopes are despatched to the pre-filled deal with. The area will be in a public constructing or in a personal constructing, which is rented for this objective (eg an exhibition area).
• The realm the place the polls are situated is guarded by the Greek Police and monitored and recorded by closed circuit tv. The recording materials is stored on the Courtroom of First Occasion of Athens.
• Events and coalitions of events collaborating within the elections are entitled to nominate a daily and an alternate electoral consultant to observe the method.

How is the secrecy of the vote ensured?

• Your vote is secret. The secrecy of the postal vote is achieved by separating the voting envelope from the envelope containing the poll, which is the one which goes into the poll field along with the ballots of different voters.
• The applying – accountable declaration is stored individually and can’t be mixed together with your poll in any approach. And the photocopy of your identification card or passport is used completely in order that there isn’t a doubt that another person didn’t vote in your behalf.

I misplaced my voting envelope. What am I doing;

The voting envelope, along with the remainder of the fabric, should be stored in a protected place. Sadly, it’s not doable to resend the envelope, as it’s private and reprinting will take time, which is not going to assist you to obtain your vote in time.

What if I’m going to vote at my polling station whereas I am registered to vote by mail?

If I’ve utilized for a postal vote in time, there can be a particular mark subsequent to the voter and the judicial consultant is not going to permit me to vote. If the file doesn’t arrive in time, then the judicial agent on the polling station the place I’m registered can be knowledgeable of the truth that the file was not acquired and I can vote in individual there from 10 am to 7 pm.

If I regretted and need to vote in individual?

It will solely be doable if the file has not been acquired by the deadline (ie by 17:00 on the eve of the election). Then the judicial consultant on the polling station the place I’m registered can be knowledgeable of the non-receipt of the file and I can vote in individual there.

If I mistakenly selected a unique celebration or candidate than the one I needed?

On this distinctive case, the voter can print the poll that can be on the web page of the Ministry of the Inside and put it within the voting envelope.