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We are in full voting day for these 2023 General Elections in Spain, and millions of voters are going to exercise their right to vote at the ballot box. Many have already done so by mail, and others will refrain from participating in these elections for one reason or another.. Those who want to go to vote in person during today's day, 23-J, only need to bring a personal identification document to the polling station.

The ballots and envelopes, although they have been sent by postal mail in recent weeks, are available to whoever needs them at the polling station itself.. To vote, the voter must only go to the school assigned according to their registration, choose their ballots and present their ID or other identification document to the president of the polling station, even if it has expired..

Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, of the General Electoral Regime, in its article 85, indicates that “the right to vote is accredited by the registration in the certified specimens of the census lists or by specific census certification and, in both cases, by the identification of the voter, which is carried out by national identity document, passport, or driving license in which the photograph of the owner appears “. However, it does not indicate anything about whether you can go to vote with your ID card expired.

You can vote with your expired DNI, but renew it as soon as possible

Voting is a right of all Spaniards, and the Central Electoral Board has been asked on several occasions whether it is possible to vote with an expired identification document. There are several doctrines presented before the Board that deal with this issue, and the answer is always the same: yes, you can vote with an identification document, be it an ID, passport or driving license, expired.

“The Central Electoral Board has repeatedly agreed that for all purposes of identification, both of voters in the act of voting and of candidates in the presentation and proclamation of candidacies, the identification document must be accepted, even if it is expired”, as indicated in one of the many resolutions made by the board. In short, you can go vote with your ID expired this 23-J.

Although it is true that, for other administrative procedures or to identify yourself before the relevant authority, an expired ID, passport or driving license can be a problem, even denying us the process or a scheduled trip. For this, it is advisable to make an appointment in advance and renew the identification documents, paying the corresponding fees, which will not be higher or entail a penalty if the document has expired.