Administrative elections 2021, the anti covid rules for voting

2021 administrative elections, anti-covid rules are active at the polls for safe voting. If the decree approved on 17 August by the CDM will begin its conversion from Tuesday 5 October in the classroom at Montecitorio, its effects – which follow what was established for the 2020 elections by the decree of 4 August 2020 – are already active for the administrative consultations scheduled for today and tomorrow and Monday and for the eventual runoff on October 17 and 18, which affects 1348 municipalities, including several large cities (Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples, Bologna), 20 provincial capitals, the renewal of the council and the election of the president of Calabria and the supplementary consultations in the colleges of the Chamber in Rome-Primavalle and Siena. The decree “identifies specific precautionary measures for further prevention of contagion risks”, guaranteeing the exercise and collection of the vote “even for Covid positive voters, subjected to hospital or home treatment, and all those who are in conditions quarantine or fiduciary isolation “. From the vote in quarantine and in the hospital to the insertion of the ballot in the ballot box, here are the rules.
THE RULES The insertion of the ballot in the ballot box (when not foreseen the anti-fraud coupon, which is applied by the president to the ballots for the supplementary Chamber of the of the containment of epidemiological spread “. Article 2 establishes the electoral sections in hospitals and health facilities that host Covid departments (already provided for by a previous decree of August 2020), but introduces the vote for citizens in treatment or in home quarantine or in fiduciary isolation, with the home collection of the vote. This provision – not contained in the previous regulation – is intended to allow the exercise of the right to vote in the municipalities where there are no hospital sections. the ballots voted, collected in separate envelopes in the event of several elections, are brought to the electoral section to be immediately placed in the destination ballot boxes. The provision allocates a fund with an endowment of 11,438,910, destined to sanitizing polling stations and health and safety protocols.