Poles went to the polling stations to vote for their presidential candidate. This procedure is very simple and it only takes a fewer minutes, but by haste or by mistake, you can make our vote go to the basket. How can we avoid that?
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Election venues were opened at 7:00. The vote is due until 9 p.m.
When we enter the premises, the election committee will ask us to identity card – it may be a individual ID or passport. If we are included in the list of voters – or if we have a vote certificate in a place another than our place of residence – we will get a ballot card.
Now it's just Just mark the name of the elected presidential candidate and ready! But you should be careful due to the fact that it's easy to make a mistake. The State Election Commission has published an instruction video on the vote.
How to vote properly?
The ballot card for the upcoming presidential election should be stamped the stamp of the peripheral electoral commission and have a printed stamp of the State Electoral Commission. The names of candidates for president of the Republic of Poland will be placed in alphabetical order.
To give your vote correctly, you gotta bet ‘X mark only in a box with the name of the selected candidate. The X mark shall be at least 2 lines intersecting within the grid’ - inform the State Election Commission.
Look out! If you item the name of your favorite, mark it in the border or in any another way, or if you put the X mark in the grid by the name of more than 1 candidate, or you don't put it at all, your voice will be invalid.
Information on how to vote will besides be found at the bottom of the ballot. And in case of any doubt, you can besides ask the members of the peripheral election commission.
Voting time and health
Not everyone can go to the polling place alone. Persons with disabilities or who were at the latest 60 years old on the election day may have applied for a power of lawyer to vote. It could have been done by May 9th.
By 5 May, the deadline had expired for the electoral commissioner to notify the vote of correspondence by voters with disabilities and by voters who were 60 at the latest on the day of the vote.
You can besides get free transport to the polling station and people who have reported the request to usage this solution, by 15 May at the latest they will know what time this transport will take place.
Any eligible Pole should vote. It's not just a privilege, it's a responsibility. In this way, we have a real impact on who will make decisions about our health, everyday life or safety. Even if it seems that 1 vote won't change anything, it's a single vote made up of democracy.