"This day was so traumatic in the first round, that to be an assessor, it's no." Unless the epidemic rebounds, the second round of municipal elections will take place on June 28, with reinforced precautions. The Minister of the Interior clarified it on Friday: each voter must wear a protective mask, even for the general public, and must sign with his own pen. But that is not enough to reassure members of the polling stations, who fear to relive the health fiasco of March 15.
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Charlotte, who fell ill a few days after the first round, believes that her safety had not been guaranteed. "We found ourselves without masks, without gloves, All the job of the assessor is already to manipulate the notebooks. There was contact, as soon as an elector leaned to sign, he touched the table , the ballot box. I wish good luck to those who volunteer. "
"I want to have a legal framework"
Same bitter experience for Olivier, president of a polling station in Lyon. Despite his hospitalization after contracting Covid-19, he will be back at work on June 28. However suspicious, he awaits clear answers from the prefecture. "Will the security guard outside ask everyone if they have their own pen? Voters, if they come into my polling station and they don't have a mask, I bring them out "Are they going to provide staff who will come at 8 am to supplant if the assessors do not come? For the second round, I want to have a legal framework," he asked.
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Worried, he is already going beyond this voluntary role. By making phone calls to his friends to convince them to be assessors and by buying boxes of masks on his own money.