63,496 voting documents remain uncollected

This week marks the last week of the electoral campaign ahead of the spring hunting referendum and local council elections taking place on Saturday 11th April.

All Maltese and Gozitan citizens have been invited to vote for the spring hunting referendum and the residents of 34 localities (26 in Malta and 8 in Gozo) will be electing a new local council on the same day.

Last Saturday saw the early voting scheme for those who had declared under oath that they would be abroad on the day of actual voting. Residents form elderly people’s homes also cast their votes on Saturday.

Figures published by In-Nazzjon show that 74% of those eligible have voted at the early sessions for both the referendum and the elections. 6,035 people voted out of 8,163 eligible voters on Saturday.

The Electoral Commission has also issued a statement to remind voters that as of today, uncollected voting documents can now be collected solely from the offices of the commission after the period of collection from police stations officially closed last Saturday.

The documents can be collected from the Commission’s Counting Hall in Naxxar for Maltese residents and from the ID card office in St. Francis’ Square in Rabat for Gozitans. The documents can be collected between 8am and 2pm, and 3pm and 9pm until Wednesday, but the offices will be open until midnight on Thursday (the last day).

Reports show that there are 27,563 uncollected documents for the referendum, which amounts to around 8%, while there are 35,933 uncollected documents for local council elections, which amounts to 18%.