Everything is ready so that next Sunday no one will miss anything when they go to their polling station to exercise their right to vote. In the city of Barcelona, a warehouse in Poblenou has been storing for days all the necessary material so that the day of the Catalan elections can take place normally. More than 15 million ballots and more than 2,000 ballot boxes are waiting in these offices to be distributed in the nearly 300 voting centers set up in the Catalan capital.
In Barcelona, where 1,088,873 citizens are registered on the electoral roll for these elections, an extensive municipal device is already underway that must guarantee the correct distribution of 2,187 ballot boxes and a total of 15,681,600 ballots from the twenty formations that attend this appointment. All this material will be distributed in these days prior to the vote at the city's 299 polling stations, where a total of 1,688 tables will be set up early on Sunday morning.
From the Directorate of Municipal Building Services, the General Services Management and the Department of Population and Electoral Processes, as well as the Directorate of General Secretariat Services, are responsible for the coordination of the entire network created by the districts, the Consortium of Education of Barcelona and the Institut Municipal de Mercats, among others.
As a novelty, all the graphic documentation of the 299 electoral centers has been homogenized and Barcelona City Council has an automatic tool to have real-time control of the status of the electoral centers and their tables (open, set up and constituted).
In terms of logistics, this device guarantees all the In addition to the more than 2,000 ballot boxes, 312 voting booths will be distributed; 2,178 boxes of ballots for a total of 15,681,600 units; 1,088 boxes of envelopes (1,088,900 units); 1,688 bags of documentation (one per table), and another fifty as a reserve in case an incident occurs.
The electoral material for the Barcelona schools also includes 17 units of Braille kits for blind voters to be distributed in 16 electoral centers and 97 units that will be distributed in private homes.
