The Electoral Board prohibits going to vote on 23-J with "Que te vote Txapote" shirts

The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has warned that going to vote at a polling station wearing t-shirts including the slogan “Que te vote Txapote” along with a shield of Spain is not allowed, indicating that the electoral regulations include the “general prohibition” of bringing “electoral propaganda of any kind” to the polling place on election day.

In this way, the arbitration body responds to a query from the Jaén Provincial Police Station for the dissemination on social networks of messages that encouraged the electorate to go “to the polling stations with a T-shirt with the motto 'Que te vote Txapote' with the shield of the Spanish State”.

In this context, the JEC refers to article 93 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) that refers to the “general prohibition” that voters can carry electoral propaganda when voting. “The use of shirts that incorporate the motto 'Que te vote Txapote' must be understood as included in the prohibition established in article 93,” he said.

For this reason, the JEC recalls that it is the responsibility of the presidents of the Electoral Tables to ensure that the polling stations and their surroundings “are free of symbols that, due to their political connotations, could constitute electoral propaganda.”. Thus, the body ensures that “they may require the help of the Security Forces and Corps to make this prohibition effective.”

Lastly, the arbitration body anticipates that this agreement will be transferred to the Provincial Electoral Boards for their information and to the Zone Electoral Boards, which must notify the Electoral Tables on the day of the vote.