My email jiminysimpson@gmail.com

My email jiminysimpson@gmail.com

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Postal Voting and Post Boxes Cuesta de los Pinos

Firstly following a request at last weeks meeting I have reprinted the how to vote by post instructions below,

I am unavoidably absent on Voting Day so I will have to be a postal voter. What do I do?
This is a complex process so please do try to be in Zurgena to vote on May 22nd in person if at all possible. If you know you cannot attend in person, you will need to vote by post.
The forms for postal voting are now available at the Post Offices (Voto por Correo - Solicitud de Certificacion). You do not need ID at this stage although it is always wise to take some! You can collect more than one at a time.
However, once completed, they will have to be returned individually, in person, to the Post Office, with ID (NIE or Passport or Certificate of Residence - whichever you ticked on your form ). You will also need some form of ID with your photo on it, like your Passport or Spanish Driving License. You may want to use your Passport as ID anyway. They will need your signature to match to the original one on the form.
The Post Office will post the form on for you in an envelope which they provide. Once the form is submitted, you will not be able to vote in person in the 2011 Local Elections.

This is only the start of the process.

You will receive by certified post (in your apartado, if you have one) the voting papers for all the parties standing in the election with the different candidates listed, an instruction sheet, the electoral envelopes, a certificate of inscription and an envelope with the address of the polling station sheet. This will be between May 2nd- 12th. Again, you will need to sign a notice of receipt and provide proof of identity at the post office. No-one else can collect the papers on your behalf - you must do this in person.
This process has to be completed no later than 10 days before Voting Day on May 22nd: in other words, before 12th May.
When you have collected the papers, you will then have to select the one voting slip of the party of your choice which must not be written on. You must put this into the voting envelope which must be sealed. This envelope, together with the certificate, must be placed in the envelope addressed to the polling station and sent by registered post (no stamps needed) before May 18th (but it would be foolish to leave it this late, given the vagaries of the Spanish postal system). Again, You will need to provide proof of identity
This all takes time (this is Spain, after all!) so it is vital you get your postal voting application form(s) right now to avoid missing the deadline.

Secondly the Correos have been in touch to say that they believe there are quite a few more people in the Cuesta de los Pinos or Cucador areas who would like a postal box (like the ones opposite La Vida). I suspect that it would help the Post Office if everyone had a postal box. When we had the 1st one built it cost about 30 euros as a one off payment. If anyone who is interested could email me I will see what the response is and if sufficient we will see what can be arranged.

1 comment:

  1. Hi,
    We all apreciate this Blog which offers us information from Town Hall/PA.
    Calling you a liar is not very nice.
    PGOU: I thought that since PA has governt in Zurgena for the last 10 years, would have the sufficient knowledge of how to prepare the PGOU. Obviously there is again something we cant understand: Why hasn´t it been aproved earlier, but just before elections? Why did not the PSOE counsillor agree with the PGOU proyect created by PA, with their majority (8/11)?
    Jim: How are you going to do this in depth lessons with the architect? In spanish or in english?
    Aproving accounts of 2009: We are now in 2011! I just wonder if this is typical in Spain.
    El Palaces tarmac: I had look on the Town Hall website, and I could only find the Report of the Pleno from 25/06/2010. I would have thought that all the Plenos would be published. So that we have access to the real information. On this Report, I cant see anything regarding to this project, that according to your earlier publication, was contracted through Diputacion and and not directly by Town Hall. As many other projects, as we can all see from this Report.
    Last Pleno: Was this open for public? If so I would have liked to be there to observer how much do you really give towards the Town Counsil, or do you just ask the things to translated on your Blog?
    Thank you for your time and I hope my message get published. Date 20/04/2011, at 11.32a.m.
    Signed by confused citizen.

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