Following the dissolution of the House of Representatives on the 14th, preparations are underway in various places for the announcement on the 19th and the ballot counting on the 31st.

Send ballot Fukushima

In Fukushima Prefecture, ballots were sent from the prefectural election administration committee to each municipality in the prefecture.



On the 15th, after 7:30 am, in front of the entrance of the Fukushima Prefectural Office, about 30 prefectural staff loaded about 500 cardboard boxes containing ballots carried out on a dolly onto four trucks.



Then, Kazuo Fukaya, the secretary general of the Prefectural Election Commission, advised that "this is an important election that will lead to the future course of Japan, the reconstruction of Fukushima, and the future. Please be careful not to make any mistakes." ..

After this, the truck departed for various parts of Fukushima prefecture.



The ballot is light blue for the single-seat constituencies, light pink for the proportional representation, and light blue for the national review of the Supreme Court justices.



Each of the shipments this time was 1,614,000, which is 81,000 less than the previous time and four years ago due to the decrease in voters.



The ballot will be delivered to all municipalities in Fukushima prefecture within 15 days.



Director Fukaya, who forgot to leave, said, "I would like the younger generation to actively visit the polling place."

Checking "Seven Tools for Elections" Matsue

At the Shimane Prefectural Government, so-called "seven tools for elections" such as armbands and flags used by candidates in the election campaign were inspected.



The "Seven Tools for Elections" are required to be worn and posted under the Public Offices Election Act, such as armbands worn by campaigners during the election period, tags to be hung on election offices, and flags to be raised during street speeches.



"Seven tools" are to be delivered to all candidates when submitting a candidacy, and at the Shimane Prefectural Government, five staff members of the Election Administration Committee will carry out inspection work before the announcement on the 19th of this month. I did.



The staff carefully checked that the letters on the armbands were correct and that the specified quantity was complete.



Shinji Yamane of the Shimane Prefectural Election Commission said, "Seven tools are indispensable for conducting fair elections. We want to promote fair, impartial and clean elections." ..

Set up an enlightenment sign to inform you of the election day Kumamoto

In Kumamoto Prefecture, preparations are in full swing, such as the installation of enlightenment signs for the election day on the 31st.



On the 15th, the entrusted contractor installed an enlightenment signboard in the annex of Kumamoto City Hall to inform that the election day for the House of Representatives election is 31st of this month.



The sign is 1 meter long and 4 meters wide, and it also states that the location and duration of the early polling place is from the 20th to the 30th of this month.

In the city, we have decided to install such signboards in 20 places including the ward office where the early voting place is set up and the town development center.



On the other hand, at the Prefectural Police Headquarters in Chuo-ku, Kumamoto City, on the morning of the 15th, a signboard of the Election Violation Control Headquarters was installed at the entrance of the room of the Criminal Investigation Division 2, which is in charge of investigating election violations.



In addition, we have set up control headquarters at all 23 police stations in the prefecture to crack down on election violations.