Regional and referendum, 67% of the poll presidents “are not available” in Bari. Rise of resignations in Florence, Genoa, Imperia and Savona

Rain of last minute waivers by seat chairs me cashiers called the regional elections and the referendum Sundays and Mondays. Flat rate widespread, of Tuscany to Apulia, which many attribute to fear of contagion. It is not surprising, for example, that a Bari all who had been appointed presidents of Covid seats – those who vote at home for the positives in home isolation or hospitalized – have given up and will be replaced by volunteers from Civil Protection. In normal seats, the new rules of the Covid era provide for the use of mask and the constant use of disinfectants. No salary increases are planned.

In Puglia, the most problematic situation: even 67% of the presidents of the “normal” seats have given up. In the last regional elections the percentage was 40%. Currently 203 presidents have been replaced by reserves. For the Covid seats, that is, the hospital in Bari Polyclinic and the three mobile seats that will go to their homes to collect the vote of the people in quarantine or in isolation who have requested it, 15 people have been designated (between presidents and tellers) among the Civil Protection volunteers.

A Florence gave up due to ‘unavailability’ 110 Presidents of seats nominated by the 360 ​​Court of Appeal: in the last regional elections the percentage of resignations had been lower, around 25%. All have already been replaced. Among ATMs, exemptions were 730 out of 1,470 people: also in this case it is a figure higher than that of five years ago, when a third of the tellers gave up.

A Genoa the municipality has counted 855 resignations with respect to the total of 2,644 ATMs and launched a call through social networks to seek replacements. Alternatively, you intend to contract temporary workers to cover certain services and thus transfer some municipal employees to the polling stations. The tellers and presidents registered in the lists and designated by the Municipality are obliged to appear at the polling stations. Anyone who refuses without a reason justified by law is punished with a fine of 309 to 516 euros. But to avoid it, just present a self-certification for family or work problems.

The issue of scrutineers ‘and presidents’ exemptions concerns the whole of Liguria. Also to spice The municipal electoral office must replace at least 20 presidents of seats who, according to sources, “have presented medical certificates with the most disparate causes.” Of the municipality of Savona they let it be known that more than half of the tellers have surrendered (for now 244 are distributed among the 61 seats in the city) and that work is being done “to replace some presidents of seats.” And 114 of the 180 ATMs that the Municipality of Imperia is taking steps to replace because the waivers came in at this time. Ten of the 47, on the other hand, are chairmen of unavailable seats, all already replaced. In San Lorenzo al Mare the administration had to replace the president of the only headquarters in its territory.