Applications for the postal vote are continuing apace, five days before the deadline for the process to end. According to what sources from the Ministry of Interior told “K”, so far the relevant applications have ifcame in totaland at 132,000. Based on the data so far, although the majority of applications concern voters from within the country, the number of registered voters from abroad who have applied to vote in the upcoming European elections in June through the postal voting process is super doubleAsian comprand with the councilss electionof June 25i 2023.
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According to what the same circles of the Ministry of the Interior reported, out of the total of approximately 132,000 applications the 96,000 of whichaboutTheregisteredchoose onehis interiory. This number represents one percentagethe shortat 72% on all applications.
Out of the total of 132,000 applications, 96,000 concerned registered voters within Greece and the remaining 36,000 registered voters from abroad.
At the time of writing, registered overseas voters who applied to vote by mail ifthey came to approxaround 36,000. This is a number which, as the sources of the Ministry of the Interior commented, “is more than double compared to the parliamentary elections of 2023, as twhen ifthey came in totala in approxhere 17,000″.
Regarding whether there is an expectation that this number will increase further, the same Interior Ministry sources commented that “there is definitely an increasing trend in recent days. Besides, we passed 100,000 applications just last friday and now, five days later, we have exceeded 132,000″.
Anthropogeography
Regarding the countries from which the applications of registered voters from abroad mainly come, the circles of the Ministry of the Interior stated that these are mainly: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Cyprus and Belgium. Accordingly, according to the same circles, applications coming from registered domestic voters, “they come from all over Greece».
Most applications have been made from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Cyprus and Belgium.
With reference to the age category of the applicants -both at home and abroad-, the sources of the Ministry of the Interior reported that more registrations (slightly higher than 20%) have been carried out by age group 41-50 years. Next is the age category 51-60 years old with a percentage of 18.7% and 31-40 years old with a percentage of 17%.
The procedureia of apetition
Until 12 midnight on Holy Monday, April 29, voters in Greece can enter the platform epistoliki.ypes.gov.gr and be registered in the special electoral lists for postal voting exclusivelya mvia taxisnetusing their personal login credentials.
Accordingly, Greek registered voters who live abroad I cany epequal to entercome to same platformrush mvia taxisnet. However, in case they do not have login credentials, they can submit them sureia of Greekin their passportsiu and deltI’m a police officerof their identityality combineda. They can also submit their details Greekin passportof them and his numberin demographyof the combinatoriala.
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After the completion of this process, the voters will receive at the address they have declared a file which, according to the sources of the Ministry of the Interior, they should “fill in with the MEPs of their choice. Subsequently will bthey won the euro voteeltio in facelo. In the same folder it will enclosedare a subjectresponsible dhealing and antiID cardwhenlet them. This envelope will be enclosed in one notsecond facelo which they will have received”. Then the voters will prhe has to communicatewere you with the post office?or companya who sent them the envelope, in order to come to collect it.
In order for the return files to be considered valid and counted, they must be returned to the Ministry of the Interior by 5pm on the eve of the election, Saturday 8 June.
It is noted that, based on what the circles of the Ministry of Interior reported, when the platform closes in five days, will be publishedlasthero guideso that to explaini the procedurea.
In order for return files to be considered valid and counted, they must have been returned to the Ministry of the Interior strictly until 5 a.mher lunch waits of the electionsoh, the Savvato June 8i. If this does not happen, it will be considered that the voter has not voted. In this case, he will be sent an electronic message through which he will be notified that from 11 am the next day he will be able to vote in person at the polling station in which he is registered.
In order not to miss this deadline, voters should have contacted the postal company until June 1iso that the file can be received by the Ministry of the Interior.
The departmentmeasurement
Regarding the procedure to be followed on the day of the European elections, the circles of the Ministry of the Interior commented that the ballot papers of the postal vote “will openidat the same time as theeverybody which will be in the polls after the end of the electoral process”.
As the governor commented yesterday on ERT of Interior and Organization of the Ministry of the Interior, Athanasios Balerbas, on the day of the elections the electoral commissions of the electoral divisions “from the ballot box in which 1,000 postal votes will have been registered, will select each return envelope, open it and look for his/her name voter on the list. Will seethey say if subit starts mphotocopy inside the envelopeone of the idality that identifies the citizen, if any underresponsible dsupplemental healingeni. Then the envelope with the ballot, they will take it to the ballot box and leave it inside.”
