The ballot papers for the Europeans they were folded before the ink dried. Thus the symbols of the various lists were “printed” on the nearby portion of the card, practically doubling itself. With the risk that more than one voter could, in fact, get confused while in the voting booth. In fact, in the space reserved for a certain party, that of the party which, symmetrically, is in the next column also appears next to the “official” symbol.
There are several reports of this type arriving from 30 polling stations in the center of Brescia. Ballots are being counted the scrutineers noticed the anomaly, which was promptly reported to the Municipality. «It is a problem that seems to be widespread in more than one polling station here in the city, we don’t know if also in other areas of Italy – the Loggia says -. We reported this to the Prefecture».
How the case was resolved
The ministerial circular provides that, albeit with a slight shadow, in cases like these the ballots remain valid. In 11 out of 30 polling stations the ballots were replaced: in all of them voting will begin regularly at 3pm. From the Municipality, through a circular, they recommended not to use the cards with the typographical defect, the replacement of which is already underway. «Additional cards can be requested by contacting
toll-free number 800.922.948. To support the activities of the polling station presidents, the indications of the Instructions for the operations of the section electoral offices are reported: “The signs that can invalidate the ballot are exclusively those affixed by the voterand not typographical signs of other kinds””.
