EU elections|A considerable number of letter votes arrived late this year.
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In Vantaa, 20 advance votes for the European Parliament elections were left uncounted due to the delay.
18 of the votes were postal votes cast abroad, two from Finland.
Advance votes must arrive at the Central Election Board no later than the Friday before the election.
Ballots that arrive late will remain unopened and ignored.
In Vantaa 20 early votes cast in the spring European Parliament elections were left uncounted, as the votes had not arrived at the Central Election Board in time.
According to the board, the votes that were ignored were mostly postal votes cast abroad.
Advance votes must arrive at the Central Election Board no later than 19:00 on the Friday before the election, in this case June 7.
Not counting of the votes cast, 18 were postal votes cast abroad, explains the secretary of the Central Election Board Niina Kolju. So two had come from somewhere in Finland.
“They are probably institutional votes given somewhere in Finland,” says Kolju.
According to Kolju, it is quite common for voices to arrive late. This time, however, there were a little more of them than usual.
“In general, it was possible to talk about just a few letter sounds.”
So it is not, for example, the votes cast in Finnish embassies abroad, but the voting package ordered by the voter himself. In that case, the mailing of the vote is also the responsibility of the voter himself. It is possible that the ballot was sent late, Kolju estimates.
When a late-arriving envelope with ballots is ignored, the envelope is not opened at all.
in the EU elections in Vantaa, according to Yle’s results service, 67,606 votes were accepted and 210 were rejected.
The voting percentage of those living in Finland was 40.7.
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