The delegate of the Government of Spain in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, has detailed the characteristics of the special device of organization and security of the General Elections next Sunday, July 23, in which a total of 23,622 public employees will participate, among personnel of the State Security Forces and Bodies, Local Police and representatives of the administration that, in collaboration with the local authorities, “will ensure that they develop in a fair, transparent and safe manner,” he said.

Specifically, he explained, “of the total number of professionals participating in this election day, 6,590 are members of the National Police, 9,496 police officers.

Civil Guard and 2,550 local police, which adds a total of 18,636 security personnel, joined by 4,986 representatives of public administrations, almost all of whom are public employees.” Pedro Fernández has assured that “on the one hand this block of professionals and on the other, the 83,382 members of the electoral tables, between presidents, members and deputies, make up an operative that will ensure the right to vote of all citizens, wherever they live”

Of the 37.46 million Spaniards and Spanish eligible to vote this coming 23J, a total of 6,669,596 are Andalusian and Andalusian, 6,400,216 voters reside in the community and 269,380 abroad. Among them are the 323,353 new voters who participate in the elections because they have reached the age of 18. According to the delegate, the total electoral census is a “similar number to the last general elections of November 2019”, with a slight increase of 1.3%, 90,192 people.

Vote by mail

Pedro Fernández reported on the process of voting by mail and, first of all, thanked the officials “for their professionalism and effort” to ensure the good development of this route, which has chosen 72.2% more Andalusians to vote”. Thus, he explained that the requests for postal vote have gone from 233,355 in 2019 to 401,862 in 2023. Of the total number of applications submitted, 233,494 were face-to-face in post offices and 168,368 telematics.

The deadline to request the vote by mail ended, as you recalled, last Thursday, July 13 and Sunday, July 16, the period to receive the documentation at home ended. “To date Correos has delivered 98.2% of the documentation to homes throughout Spain and the rest, after not being able to personally deliver the envelope at home, they have given you notice that they can collect your documentation at the nearest post office.” “Now it is the electors who count until next Thursday, July 20 to deposit their vote in the post offices,” added the delegate.

“During the day of 23J, 59 Area Electoral Boards, 3,612 polling stations, 10,094 polling stations, 21,384 ballot boxes, 8,405 booths, 19,840,800 envelopes, 4,269 tablets for the transmission of data, complete the infrastructure provided for this democratic process, in which 185 voting kits will be available in Braille thus guaranteeing accessibility to all,” said Fernández.

The members of the tables will be able to inform themselves and consult their doubts in the 61,943 instruction manuals distributed with the rules, rights and duties of the electoral day.

For their part, the representatives of the AGE will have a total of 4,269 data transmission devices that will be used to record and send in real time the incidents from the opening of tables, at 9:00h, until the closing, at 20:00h. They will also be able to transmit the information related to the constitution of the tables, incidents that may occur during the electoral day and the sending of the results of the elections.

The data of the electoral process can be consulted on the website enabled for the general elections of 2023:

https://elecciones.generales23j.es/