Piedmont to vote: at 12 the turnout was 29.2%. Turin brings up the rear among the provinces

The second day of voting for the European and Regional elections in Turin opened without any particular hitches where all 919 polling stations – plus 43 special polling stations and 5 for voting for off-site students – were opened regularly.

The polls are open until 11pm and the Turin citizens entitled to vote in the European elections are 667,150, of these 350,798 are females and 316,352 males. For the Regional elections the electoral body is made up of 688,711 Turin citizens, divided between 360,195 females and 328,516 males.

Form grey for them Europeangreen for Regional. To vote on the gray ballot you need to indicate the symbol of the party you want to vote for and you can specify up to three surnames of candidates alongside. Be careful because they must all belong to the same political force but they must also be listed respecting thegender alternation.

For the Regionals, however, a maximum of two can be expressed preferences, but also in this case of a different sex. This evening at 11pm it will begin bare for the European Championships, and at 2pm tomorrow for the Regionals.

At 12 pm the turnout for the regional elections in Piedmont was 29.2%. The turnout, at the same time, for the municipal elections (over 3,600 municipalities involved) was 34.59%. These are the data provided by the Interior Ministry.

Among the provinces the most virtuous is Biellawith 33.74% of voters while Turin it brings up the rear with 27.86%. TO Vercelli 30.17% of those entitled voted; TO Novara 30.37%; Alexandria 29.75%; Asti 29.02%; Wedge 31.54%.

The president of the Piedmont Region and center-right candidate for reconfirmation, Alberto Cirio, voted today at 11 in Alba, in the province of Cuneo. Cirio voted in seat number 4 in the headquarters of a musical institute accompanied by his wife Sara, his daughter Carolina and his son Emanuele. Yesterday he voted for the Democratic Party’s challenger, Gianna Pentenero.

A strange accident occurred this morning at Torrazza Piedmont (province of Turin) where people also vote for the municipal elections. Incident which led to the temporary suspension of voting operations in section number 3 after a voter was given an already filled-in ballot. Once the woman opened the card, she found the cross already affixed to the symbol of one of the lists, and the preference already expressed for a councilor candidate. At that point you informed the scrutineers and the polling station president.

All necessary checks are underway. The outgoing mayor and the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza intervened on site. While awaiting the outcome of the checks, hypotheses are being put forward as to what happened. The main one concerns an episode that happened a few minutes earlier, when another voter was accidentally given two blue ballots.

One was returned to the scrutineers and may have been given to the next voter. In this case it would have been a double human error. The polling station president ordered the recount of the ballots and then the electoral commission will evaluate how to proceed.