Correos has just made public the provisional data for voting by mail for the next 23-J. Of the 2,622,808 applications that have been made to vote through this system, last night 2,461,284 citizens had already sent their vote, 93.8% of the total, the highest ratio reached in a general election since 2008, which are the first to have, according to the organization, approved statistical records.
In the last general elections, held in November 2019, of the 986,454 people who requested to vote by mail, 924,403 finally did so, 93.7%, which was the highest percentage to date. The average, counting from the 2008 elections, is located at 92.7%.
In addition, the number of electoral documents that continued this morning in the offices available to citizens who had requested the vote by mail and who had not been able to be located by the postmen was 123,822.. These people have had until 2:00 p.m. to go pick them up and exercise their right to vote; otherwise, they will no longer be able to do so, because having requested to vote by mail prevents you from voting in person on Sunday.
The deadline for voting by mail ended at 2:00 p.m. today, Friday, July 21, after yesterday the Central Electoral Board accepted the Post Office's request to extend the deadline for one more day to facilitate the management of reissues of electoral documentation for citizens who had requested to receive them at a different address from the one indicated at first.
On the other hand, Correos has announced that next Sunday it will carry out a special logistical deployment in which more than 14,000 employees will participate to ensure the delivery of all the votes at the polling stations.