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350% more requests, a record number in elections in Catalonia.

The fear of contagion by coronavirus has triggered voting by mail in the elections to be held on February 14 and until this Friday, the date on which the option to request it was closed, 284,706 applications have been received according to the Generalitat.

Voters who vote by mail have until February 12 to cast it to the table.

This is a total figure that beats all the records of applications received in elections in Catalonia and that confirms the upward trend that had been drawn throughout the period to request the vote by mail, between December 22 and February 5, according to the Generalitat, which has insisted on promoting postal voting due to the current health crisis.

The Catalan administration considers that this voting modality will allow a reduction in attendance at polling stations on 14-F.

That is why they highlight the "good reception among the population" since 284,706 applications have been received, which represents more than 350% more than in the last elections to Parliament in 2017, when 78,876 were accepted.

In addition, they emphasize that it is a much higher figure than the requests to vote by mail in the elections of 2015 (107,421), 2012 (63,142), 2010 (45,000) or 2006 (41,551).

Of the more than 280,000 people who have requested to vote by mail for 14-F, more than 80,000 have done so electronically, a figure that represents 30% of the total.

This year's elections are the first in which you will be able to vote without leaving your home, with a recognized digital certificate and without having to go to a Post Office.

In addition, citizens will have the possibility to deliver the vote directly to the Post Office worker who delivers the electoral documentation to the address.

As for the votes cast, that is, people who have requested to vote by mail and who have already sent their vote to the table, there are 133,148.

It is also a figure much higher than the votes by mail already cast in the same electoral period in 2017, when 56,866 had been cast.

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