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Voting at home will take place on Friday and Saturday. Citizens who are in COVID-19 self-isolation will also be able to vote this way this year. And there are almost 30,000 of them, between minors and foreign citizens.
They have to register in advance to vote from home, so far only a few hundred have done so.
Member of the Baltic District Commission of Kaunas Šilainiai constituency A. Pranaitis 15 minutes He said he participated in more than one election, but said he would miss it. He said he should have gone home with isolated voters, but concerned for their health and safety. A. Pranaitis assured him that he was interested, called the CEC, but the clarity supposedly did not increase.
Photo by Lukas April / 15 minutes / Preliminary voting begins in the Seimas elections
“I am disappointed with these things and have resigned as a member of the commission,” he said.
Even now, with several days remaining before the vote, another member of the Radviliškis district electoral commission, who did not want to appear, said he was missing. But this is not the worst. The CEC, according to a member of the Election Commission, allocated very few bathrobes to the entire constituency.
“It would be nice to have a hundred bathrobes,” he said, and the county said it had received just over 20.
“Even with a bathrobe, at least we would be wearing a bathrobe. It will change, no matter how well it does, but at least that number is necessary. And now when not a bathrobe leaves the area …”, lamented the interlocutor.
We will put on and raincoats.
If the CEC does not provide bathrobes, he assured that he would behave creatively and buy raincoats: “I saw that disposable raincoats cost quite cheap, so we will use and rain those raincoats. And how else to do it? You don’t want anything at all, because what you can know, where you will get it. “
A member of the electoral commission said that the staff also lacked booties, but all was well with the arsenal of masks.
“Our constituency has more than 1,000 medical masks, and even those who go to the polls can be divided,” he said.
The interviewee was outraged that the CEC did not say which people were infected with COVID-19. Knowing that, he said, one could take maximum protection and wear the available gowns.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Parliamentary elections 2020
“The problem is that I don’t know which people are sick. If they complete that I am sick with COVID-19 or isolate, then I see it. But anyway to everyone who goes home <...>I don’t know if they are sick, because the CEC answered the following: there is personal data protection, we cannot know if they are sick. No one provides us with such information.
In other words, if the voter himself says that he is ill, we will know that he is ill. In this case, I imagine, it is necessary to take the maximum protection measures, because everyone is potentially ill, but there are no measures, “said the member of the electoral commission.
“By the way, and where do you have to get dressed and undressed: get dressed and enter with a person in the stairwell, communicate, undress or in front of the staircase? It’s probably wrong to sit in the car in those clothes. And where to put them next? I imagine the need to carry a garbage bag. There was no clear explanation, “he added.
The interviewee also discussed why people in self-isolation were not allowed to vote by mail, then, he said, no additional resources would be needed.
“It is allowed in the Lithuanian district of the world, but not for everyone else for some reason. Don’t you think why this is not being done?” He asked.
It will provide additional security measures.
With these questions 15 minutes applied to the CEC. Commission President Laura Matjošaitytė stressed that voting by mail should be legalized for those in self-isolation.
“Currently, the law does not provide that possibility,” he said.
The president of the CEC assured that last week the electoral commissions of the constituencies were questioned about the need for additional measures of personal protection, which supposedly was directed to the Ministry of Health.
This week, hopefully, as usual, the additional needs will reach the electoral commissions of the constituencies.
“This week, we hope that, as usual, additional needs will come to the electoral commissions of the electoral districts,” expected L. Matjošaitytė.
He stressed that the members of the commissions should wear and change personal protective equipment as specified in the decision of the Chief of Operationsthat is, gowns and boot swabs should be changed after each visit to a person with COVID-19 or an isolated person.
“The members of the electoral commissions are recommended to follow all the instructions of the Ministry of Health and the CEC. Wear properly personal protective equipment, change it regularly, disinfect your hands regularly, keep a safe distance, and ventilate polling stations as much as possible.
Those who go to the polls at home are also advised to maintain a safe distance, to warn voters that when voting at home, they should wear a personal protective device that covers their nose and mouth, and maintain a safe distance.
It is recommended that members of election commissions assess for themselves whether they can go to the polls at home and work at the polling station on Election Day. To protect the members of the electoral commissions, they are granted personal protection measures, ”taught L. Matjošaitytė.
Photo by Lukas Balandus / 15min / Laura Matjošaitytė
After use, the devices should be placed in disposable bags and used as medical waste, added the president of the CEC.
“So that the members of the electoral commissions can put on and take off their personal protective equipment, we organized trainings for them with representatives of the Institute of Hygiene last week,” he said.
Among other things, L. Matjošaitytė assured that the members of the electoral commissions will know which person is in self-isolation because they returned from abroad and which, because they had contact with the patient, if there is a person with COVID-19.
Depending on the situation, personal protection measures and their level also differ.
“Depending on the situation, the personal protection measures used and their level also differ,” said the president of the CEC.
“It is noteworthy that last week we made the decision to vote in the special polling stations of the constituency and at home to vote for voters with COVID-19 (coronavirus infection). group of members of electoral commissions. The group is made up of at least 8 members of the electoral commissions of one or different constituencies of that constituency ”, he said.
You can find out how to register to vote if you are isolated here.
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