Almost 69 people registered by 19 pm this Sunday, January 00, to vote in advance for mobility on the 16rd, in the legislative elections, announced the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to this ministry, “the number of voting citizens who signed up to vote in mobility voting, until 19 pm this Sunday, is 00.
Comparing with the presidential elections, which took place in January 2021, "by 19 pm on the first day of registration for early mobility voting, 00 voters had registered".
If you wish to vote in advance for mobility, you can register until this Thursday, January 20th, here.
Early mobility voting "is one of the various ways that citizens have to exercise their right to vote before election day, coexisting with early voting for hospitalized patients, prisoners and citizens in nursing homes", as well as, in the context of pandemic, "an exceptional regime for citizens in confinement decreed by the health authorities", can be read in the note.
If you are in mandatory confinement, decreed by the health authorities until the 22nd of January, you can apply for registration between the 20th and 23rd of January. The teams for collecting votes at home are made up of «representatives of the mayors of each municipality, who may be accompanied by candidacy delegates».
Between the 25th and 26th of January, the teams will travel to the address that the voter indicated in the registration, which must coincide with the domicile registered in the registration system for patients with Covid-19, managed by the Directorate-General for Health.
Given the current situation of Covid-19 in Portugal, the Electoral Administration took several measures to guarantee health security on the 30th of January and which accompany «the reduction of the number of registered voters for each polling station to 750, a limit from the which there is unfolding of tables»
16.427 polling stations will be set up, of which 2.606 on the 23rd of January for early mobility voting and 13.821 on the 30th.
To support early mobility, confinement and home voting arrangements, several thousand GNR military personnel and PSP police officers will also be directly involved who, in the respective areas of territorial competence of the 308 municipalities, «will collect the envelopes, on days 24th, 25th and 26th of January, and hand them over to the custody of the court to later, on the 29th, take them to the Parish Councils».
The Ministry of Internal Administration recalls that “in the early vote for hospitalized or imprisoned voters, whose registration ended on the 10th of January and they vote between the 17th and 20th, 3.394 voters signed up: 400 patients and 2.994 prisoners”.
On the other hand, it is mentioned that «the number of registered voters abroad is 1.521.926, of which 2.876 chose to vote in person».
If you do not know where you are registered, you can obtain this information through the website, or via a free SMS to 3838, with the message «RE (space) CC/BI number (space) date of birth=yyyymmdd».
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