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02 September 2020Reduce the risks of contagion as much as possible and guarantee the possibility of voting also for Covid-19 positive voters hospitalized or in home quarantine.
These are the objectives of circular 39/2020 issued to all prefects by the Central Directorate for Electoral Services with reference to the application of the provisions of the decree-law of 14 August 2020, number 103, which identifies some precautionary measures to avoid the spread of the infection.
Regulatory provisions that are added to the measures already provided for by the health and safety protocol signed by the Ministers of the Interior and of Health.
15 million masks
Starting next Friday, 15.1 million surgical masks, 3.4 million gloves and 315,000 liters of sanitizing gel will be distributed, which will be used to adequately protect citizens who go to the vote, the constituents of the polling station and the operators involved. , according to the provisions contained in the health and safety protocol signed by the Ministers of the Interior and Health on 7 August.
How to vote at the polling stations
The circular, explains the Interior Ministry on its website, regarding the procedures for inserting the ballots voted by the voters in the ballot box, clarifies that: - in the confirmatory popular referendum and in the regional and administrative elections, went to the booth, having voted and folded the ballot or ballots, must personally insert them in the corresponding ballot box; - in the supplementary elections of the Senate that will take place in the two single-member constituencies concerned (03 in Sardinia and 09 in Veneto) the obligation of the voter to deliver the suitably folded ballot to the polling chairman (or whoever takes his place), who is required to remove the anti-fraud slip from the ballot and place it, therefore, in the ballot box.
In the latter circumstance, the president (or whoever takes his place) will wear gloves to receive the ballot.
In health facilities In
addition, in all health facilities that have at least 100 beds, where there are Covid-19 wards, electoral sections must be set up with the functions of collecting the vote and counting the ballots.
If it is ascertained that it is impossible to establish a hospital electoral section and / or a special seat, the mayor may appoint, as members, staff of the special regional assistance continuity units (Uscar), designated by the competent local health authority or, in subordinate, upon activation of the competent authority, subjects enrolled in the list of civil protection volunteers who are electors of the municipality.
Who is in quarantine at home
Limited to electoral and referendum consultations in 2020, voters undergoing home treatment and those who are in quarantine or fiduciary isolation conditions for Covid-19 are allowed to vote at their home in the municipality of residence.
To acquire this right, they must send to the mayor of the municipality in whose lists they are registered, between the tenth and the fifth day before the voting, a declaration certifying the will to vote at their home and a certificate, issued by the official doctor designated by the ASL, who certifies the existence of the conditions provided