Everyone who arrives at polling stations before 9pm, after voting by all voters who stood in line in front of them, will be able to vote – said TVN24 head of the National Electoral Office Magdalena Pietrzak. At the press conference, the NEC also stressed that “it is impossible to force voters to measure the temperature.”
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Voting in the presidential election began at 7 am. According to the regulations, polling stations will be open until 9 pm. Election silence applies until the end of the election.
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The head of the National Electoral Commission Sylwester Marciniak noticed that queues are forming in front of polling stations. As he said, there may be several reasons for this situation – Undoubtedly, the question of increased sanitary rigor. This results in longer proceedings with the voter in the premises – he pointed out. He added that the expected high temperature during the day may also affect the interest in voting from the morning hours.
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Asked about the possibility of extending the election silence due to queues outside the premises in the evening, Sylwester Marciniak explained that this would not be the basis for extending the silence, and similar events had already taken place in previous elections.
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Head of the CWB: anyone who will arrive before 9 PM will be able to vote
The head of the National Electoral Office Magdalena Pietrzak was asked in an interview with the TVN24 reporter what about people who would still be queuing at 9pm. She said that the provisions of the Electoral Code show that if “the voter arrived at the premises before 9pm, the commission is obliged to allow him to vote.”
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– We will deal with such situations – she added. She noted that in previous elections there were too few polling stations and did not fit those voters who arrived before 21.
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“Someone who stands at the end of the queue at 21 and after will not be able to vote,” she said. However – as she assured – “all those who arrived before 21 after voting by all voters who stood before will be able to cast such a vote”.
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Pietrzak: voters cannot be forced to measure temperature
At the second PKW Sunday conference at 13:30, Pietrzak referred to the reports of the Polish Press Agency, which stated that in the circuit committee established at Primary School No. 257 at ul. Journey in Warsaw before the entrance to the premises school staff had to measure the temperature of those entering. As PAP wrote, the man explained that in the event that one of the voters had a higher temperature, he must ask such a person to wait and inform the chairman of the commission.
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– We received such information, which was immediately forwarded to the Warsaw City Office, because the committees, heads of heads, mayors and presidents are responsible for the commission – said the head of the KBW. – Certainly intervention was undertaken there, because there are no such procedures, there is no such obligation and there is no way to force voters to measure the temperature – she explained. She indicated that this was a grassroots initiative of that person. “She was noticed and stopped,” she added.
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photo-source">Source of main photo: PAP / Andrzej Grygiel
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