The City of Cartagena has held this morning an extraordinary plenary session in which the appointment of the members of the 259 polling stations that will be installed in the municipality of Cartagena during the upcoming municipal, autonomous and European elections on Sunday has been drawn through a computerized process May 26
The draw, which lasted barely five minutes, has been chaired by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón.
The accidental general secretary of the plenary Alicia García Gómez has explained the procedure to follow so that after the extraction of three numbers, from 1 to 999, they are applied to the lists of the electors who have the necessary qualifications in each one of the polling stations and determine the 2,331 people who will be called to participate as presidents, members and alternates.
Thus for each table nine people have been designated: a titular president and his two alternates, in addition to two regular members and four substitutes.
The number that has left for the presidents has been 10;
for the first vowels, the 367 and for the second vowels, the 38. The first substitutes will be obtained by discounting successively 5 those numbers to avoid that the designated ones are members of the same family;
and the second substitutes, adding successively 5.
The list of those selected will be forwarded by the City Council to the Electoral Board, which will be in charge of ordering its notification to the Local Police.
According to the electoral legislation, the office of president and member of the polling stations is a right and a civic duty, which can only be excused due to incompatibility or force majeure, duly accredited.
In exchange, the presidents and members who exercise this function will be entitled to a paid leave, if it coincides with their working day, and individual diets of 65 euros, exempt from withholding by the Treasury.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena