Pedro Sánchez has called early elections for Sunday, July 23, 2023, a date on which many citizens will be out of their cities for the summer holidays. That is why it is expected that the requests for voting by mail will increase.
Requesting a vote by mail is simple, but you have to meet a series of deadlines that are set in the call for elections that the BOE will publish this Tuesday, May 30.
1. Request to vote by mail
Voting by mail can be requested at the Post Office in Spain, presenting the original DNI, passport or driving license. It can also be ordered electronically through the Correos.es website, although it requires identification with the electronic ID or with a valid digital certificate.
2. Receive the ballots
Once the request is made, Correos forwards the request to the Electoral Census Office, which makes the necessary checks and, if everything is correct, issues a certificate that the voter is registered in the electoral census and notes that that person will vote by mail.
So the citizen will no longer be able to vote in person. In this second phase, the electoral office sends the necessary documentation "by certified mail" to the voter's address: ballot papers, envelopes, the census certificate, an envelope with the address of the voting station -in which they will enter their vote and the certificate - and an explanation of how to complete all of the above. This delivery must be in person.
The voter has to sign "personally" for the receipt of the documents, "after proving their identity." The law specifies that, if you are not at home when the postman passes by, you will have to go to an office to receive the documentation "after proving" your identity.
3. Cast the vote by mail
In the third and final phase, the voter must submit their vote by certified mail, inserted in the envelope with the address of their polling station.
Finally, it should be noted that voting by mail does not exempt citizens from being called to form part of a polling station, despite the widespread belief that it does.
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