Members who do not show up to work on election day have 30 days to justify absence; know how
This year’s elections will mobilize around 1.8 million poll workers across the country, according to the TSE (Superior Electoral Court). These people must provide the service in the 1st and 2nd shift (if any). The voter scheduled for the task that does not appear will be subject to a fine.
Poll workers are voters summoned or who have volunteered to help in polling stations. Their functions range from identifying and orienting people arriving to vote to maintaining order at polling stations, opening and closing the polls, in the case of section presidents.
JUSTIFICATION
According to article 124 of the Electoral Code, whoever is listed as a polling station and cannot attend, must notify the Electoral Court in advance. The procedure avoids the lack of personnel and future embarrassment to the voter himself (read the penalties below).
In the advance justification, the polling station officials have up to 5 days from the receipt of the summons to inform the reasons for the impediment. To do this, just access the Virtual Service to Voters, on the Virtual Electoral Registry page available on the websites of the TREs (Regional Electoral Courts). Click here to access the list of regional courts.
Through the system, the voter must forward the waiver request to the electoral judge and the proof of inability to work, if any. The request will be evaluated by the judge, who may or may not accept the justification.
If the polling station does not appear because the summons was lost, the Electoral Court’s orientation is that the citizen should contact the electoral zone in which he is registered to obtain information.
Those who do not justify their absence in advance and do not show up for work on polling day are also able to remedy the situation. For this, just justify the absence by the same system within 30 days.
PENALTY
The unjustified absence of the polling station does not characterize an electoral crime, but an administrative infraction. In this case, the voter is subject to a fine established by the electoral judge. The amount varies from 50% to 100% of the minimum wage, which currently stands at R$1,212.
If the clerk is on the 1st shift, but does not show up to work on the 2nd shift without providing justification, the fine will be doubled.
The Electoral Code also establishes that, if the defaulting clerk is a civil servant or a government official, the penalty will be replaced by a suspension of up to 15 days.
Even voters summoned as poll workers who do not attend the activity can vote.
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