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In the event of illness or incapacity preventing the voter from making the postal vote application in person, that is, if he or she is unable to go in person to a post office (this inability must be supported by an official medical certificate which is free of charge), the application to register in the electoral roll may be made on behalf of the voter by another person who has been authorised by notary or by consul with a document which will be issued individually with regard to each person affected and in which several voters’ names may not figure; nor can the same person represent more than one voter. The Electoral Board will verify, in each case, the concurrence of circumstances which this section refers to.

It must be remembered that Notaries’ visits to the homes of voters who are ill or incapacitated to enable them to grant power of attorney is free of charge; as the Central Electoral Board has stated, these expenses must be understood as being included within the criterion of no-charge notarial acts.

More information:
Section 72 LOREG (Organic Law on the General Electoral System)
Section. 8 of RD 605/99
Instructions of Central Electoral Board, 14 February 1992, 28 April 1993; 28 April 1993

Spanish legislation provides, for blind voters, the system of assisted voting; it rules that persons who, due to a physical defect, are prevented from choosing the ballot paper or inserting it in the envelope, may be aided by a person he or she trusts to perform these operations.

More information::
Section 87 of LOREG (Organic Law on the General Electoral System)

Spanish legislation rules that electoral centres must be accessible to persons of limited mobility.

Moreover, persons who are ill or whose disability prevents them from voting in person, may do so by post.

More information:
Section 8 of Royal Decree 605/1999.

Persons remanded in state custody who have not been deprived of their voting right may do so by post.

The following procedure will be observed: all State prisons will display for the benefit of inmates the electoral rules governing postal voting and information sessions will be held to explain and clarify the voting procedure.

For this purpose, prison management in each Centre - or the person delegated – will request Correos y Telégrafos to send a member of staff to the Centre on a specific date to deliver the necessary electoral roll registration application forms so that inmates wishing to exercise their right to vote may complete them.

If any of the inmates do not have a DNI (National Identity Code), the Internal Identity Code shall suffice, provided that it bears the inmate's photograph.

The Electoral Roll Office must send the Centre sufficient envelopes and ballot papers, which shall be delivered in person to the voter by the postal worker.

The voter will choose the relevant ballot paper, insert it in the envelope, and then insert the latter into another envelope which will be addressed to the relevant Electoral Table.

Post Office personnel will deliver these envelopes to the corresponding Electoral Tables on polling day.

More information:
Sections 72 and 73 LOREG (Organic Law on the General Electoral System)
Resolutions of the CEB 5 May 1993 and 10 February 2000.