In total, 122 of the 124 people affected by the theft at an office in a town in Badajoz have already voted again.

In total, 122 of the 124 voters whose postal votes were stolen at the Fuente de Cantos post office (Badajoz) have already exercised their right to vote again, according to data provided by Correos this Saturday.

The rest of the voters were contacted by Post Office staff so that, according to the established procedure, they could vote again, the postal public entity said in a press release.

Regarding the theft of 124 postal votes that occurred at the Fuente de Cantos post office, the government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana, attributed this Friday’s event to a “common law crime”.

He explained that the armed institute, which still keeps the investigation open, recorded five cases of attempted theft in post offices and that in only one of these cases, in the town of Fuente de Cantos, the perpetrators achieved their objective.

Concretely, early Thursday morning, they took away a safe containing 14,000 euros and 124 postal votes. The box was found broken and opened a few hours later in a premises in Talavera la Real, without money and with postal votes scattered all around.

These votes “were not in the interest” of the criminals, since everything indicates that it is a “common law crime”.

An attribution that Correos also highlighted in connection with facts that she links to other thefts perpetrated in offices in the same region.

He further recalled that a resolution of the Provincial Electoral Commission of Badajoz authorized the issuance of duplicates of electoral documents by the Provincial Delegation of the Electoral Census Office of Badajoz to ensure their delivery to interested parties so that they can vote again by mail.

“In compliance with said resolution, Correos immediately activated a special operation to ensure that all citizens can exercise their right,” he said.

Likewise, Correos assured that it would continue to adopt all the necessary measures to strengthen the organization and security to “guarantee compliance with the public service obligations” entrusted to the postal service in the electoral processes.