One hundred and twenty-two of the 124 voters whose postal votes were stolen from the Fuente de Cantos Post Office (Badajoz) have already exercised your right to vote again, according to data provided by Correos this Saturday.
He the rest of the voters were contacted by Post Office staff so that, following the established procedurecan vote again, the public postal entity said in a press release. About the subtraction of 124 postal votes occurred at the Fuente de Cantos post office, the government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana, attributed this Friday’s incident to a “common law crime”.
He explained that the the armed institute keeps the investigation open and it was recorded five incidents of attempted theft in post offices, but only in one of these cases, in the town of Fuente de Cantos, did the perpetrators achieve their goal.
More precisely, the early Thursday morning they took a safe which contained 14,000 euros And 124 postal voteswhich was forcibly located and opened a few hours later in a location in Talavera la Real. The box appeared without the money and with the scattered postal votes around him, according to authorities.
These votes “they were of no interest” criminals, since everything indicates that it is a common crime. An attribution which also Highlighted Post Office on certain facts which links to other flights perpetrated in offices in the same region.
In addition, he recalled that a resolution of the Provincial Electoral Commission of Badajoz authorized the issuance of duplicates of electoral documents to guarantee the right to vote. This measure was adopted by the Provincial Delegation of the Electoral Census Office of Badajoz with the aim of ensure delivery to interested parties and allow them to vote by mail again.
“In accordance with said resolution, Correos immediately activated a special operation to ensure that all citizens could exercise their right“, said the entity. Likewise, Correos assured that it would continue to adopt organizational and security measures to ensure compliance with public service obligations entrusted to the postal service during electoral processes.
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