"Voting place rearranging ticket" deletes resident's card if there are not many unknown addresses

"Voting place rearranging ticket" If you do not receive many unknown addresses, resident's card will be deleted on March 16 at 4:16

At the time of the election, it was clarified that there was a local government where the "voting place numbered ticket" mailed to voters by the Election Administration Committee was unknown and did not reach 1 in 50. In some cases, the resident's card was deleted because the numbered ticket did not arrive, and administrative services could not be received. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said, "I want you to report the correct address."

"Polling place rearranging ticket" is mailed by Election Administration Committee based on data of resident's card to notify voters of election voting day and voting place.

NHK interviewed the Election Commission of Tokyo's 23 wards to find out how many "voting place rearranging tickets" returned with unknown addresses during the Upper House election last summer. As a result, of the 19 wards that responded, Shinjuku-ku, which had the highest percentage, exceeded 2% of the total, and Arakawa-ku and Taito-ku exceeded 1%.

Local governments may scrutinize the actual situation of residence based on the information on the returned numbered ticket and delete the resident's card, in which case not only you will not be able to go to voting, but also administrative services such as National Health Insurance and National Pension And you may not be able to live.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Resident System Division, "The resident's card is important not only for the election but also for receiving appropriate administrative services. If there is a change in address, we want to be notified accurately."

Arakawa Ward does not reach over 1600 and 95% are single households

In Arakawa Ward, of the approximately 105,600 mailed by mail, 1.74%, or 1.74%, returned without reaching the voters.

The Arakawa Ward Election Administration Committee stores the returned polling place numbered tickets for a certain period of time and shares information with the Family Register and Residents Section, which is in charge of the resident card. After that, the Family Register and Residents Section investigates the actual status of residence, and if it becomes clear that the target voters do not live at the address on the resident's card, it is taking measures to delete the resident's card based on law.

Arakawa Ward Election Management Committee Secretary-General Hironori Murayama said, “95% of the numbered tickets returned are considered to be single-person households. In some cases, you may not understand how to do it. "

Then he said, "I want you to take care of one valuable vote, but if you do not have a resident card, you will not be able to receive administrative services, so I want to further disseminate the necessity of notifying your address properly." I am.

Support group "Resident card once deleted is difficult to recover on its own"

About 60 years ago, a 60-year-old man from Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, lost his resident card after living on a car.

The man was unable to pay the rent of the apartment where he lived because his company, which he ran with a friend at the time, went bankrupt and stayed in a wagon for three years and eight months. At first I was helping an acquaintance's job, but eventually that job was gone, and when I visited Hello Work to find a job, I found that my resident's card had already been deleted, and it was difficult to find a job because there was no address That is.

After that, with the help of an NPO that supports the poor in their lives, they were able to rent an apartment and revive their resident card. And in the case of election, polling place rearranging ticket came to arrive again and was able to go to vote.

The man said, `` When I lost my resident card, I felt sorry for me and I felt like I was not myself, but I was really glad that I realized that I could return to a citizen when I could go back to vote again. '' I was talking.

"Without a resident's card, it is difficult to secure new homes, work is limited to day labor, and banking is not possible," said Ichikawa Gamba no Kai, the director of the Ichikawa Gamba no Kai, which supported men. The big problem is that you can't get the basics of living because you can't open an account or sign up for a mobile phone. It is very difficult to revive, and I think it is important that we, NPOs and governments, and other related organizations actively work on this. "