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The first general elections of democracy in the holiday months is forcing to sharpen the ingenuity to facilitate that citizens go to the polls, and not only to the Central Electoral Board, but also to the tourism sector. The possibility of voting by mail if it is not possible to do so in person has encountered not only the shadow of the irregularities detected in the past municipal and regional but with the changes of address that Spaniards usually make in July and August to enjoy their holidays. Where to receive the ballots if one is not in his habitual residence or second holiday residence?

Those who have hired a few days of rest in hotels on the Alicante coast will have it a little easier. The hotels on the Costa Blanca will allow their guests to provide the address to receive the postal vote that of the accommodation. Determining a postal address different from the one on the census is provided for in electoral regulations. Citizens may request the vote by mail until July 13 and the ballots of all the candidacies of their constituency, together with the electoral envelopes, will be sent between July 13 and 16 "to the address indicated by him or, failing that, to the one that appears in the census", together with a certificate and an envelope in which the address of the table of the locality where he will It is appropriate to vote.

Therefore, whoever is on vacation in a hotel that central week of July, which concentrates 34% of the trips of the summer period, must indicate an address. The hotel association of the Costa Blanca, Hosbec, has announced that it will allow its customers to communicate as a postal address to receive the vote of the hotel where they are staying.

"We are going to give them all the facilities and they will be able to put in their request the address of the hotels. The receptions are prepared to receive the documentation and will deliver it to the client so that he can exercise his right to vote," explains Nuria Montes, general secretary of Hosbec.

As the receipt notice that proves that the documentation has been received must be personally signed by the interested party "after accreditation of their identity", the function of the receptions will be to notify the guest and, if it is not found, collect the notice so that it can appear at the corresponding post office.

It is a kind of momentary 'registration' to help prevent abstention among those who have contracted their trips that second half of July.

The Valencian employer had also been sensitive to facilitate the cancellation or change of date free of charge to those customers who had been designated as members of polling stations, although having a contracted trip whose cancellation generates economic damage has been considered as an exonerating circumstance by the Electoral Board.

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