MADRID/SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Correos has released a statement in which it explains that 93.8 percent of the 2,622,808 applications for voting by mail have already deposited their ballot. In other words, a total of 2,461,284 voters have done so until 00:00 this Thursday night. In the case of the Canary Islands, 79,124 votes have been admitted, of which 43,130 have been in the province of Las Palmas and 35,994 in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In this sense, he specifies that, pending the final data, the national numbers of votes by mail already represent the highest recorded in the history of democracy. Specifically, Correos points out, it represents 98 percent more than in the elections of April 28, 2019 and 81 percent more than in those held in 2016.
As reported by the state society, until 12:00 a.m. this Thursday, more than 2.4 million applicants for voting by mail had deposited their vote and this Friday began with a total of 161,524 voters who were yet to enter their ballot when the deadline ended at 2:00 p.m.
The Central Electoral Board (JEC) responded this Thursday to the Post Office’s request to extend the deadline to deposit the vote by mail, so that the 161,524 voters who remained to enter their ballot have until this Friday at 2:00 p.m. to go to a Post Office and vote.
As Correos defends while waiting for the definitive data, this ratio of votes by mail already represents the highest number of votes by mail registered in the history of democracy. Specifically, it represents 98 percent more in the elections of April 28, 2019 and 81 percent more than in 2016.
By autonomous communities, Madrid is the region where the most votes by mail have been produced, always awaiting the final data, with a total of 590,048 votes cast as of this Thursday. It is followed by Andalusia, with 345,859, and Catalonia, with a total of 249,518 votes by correspondence.
Behind are the Basque Country (204,148); Castilla y León (170,670); Valencian Community (169,700); Galicia (138,601); Castile-La Mancha (102,529); Aragon (88,433); Canary Islands (79,124); Extremadura (58,895); Asturias (53,646); Murcia (48,866); Navarre (44,479); Balearic Islands (34,161); Cantabria (22,199); La Rioja (19,839); Ceuta (5,226) and Melilla (5,073).
