Catalans overseas move to ensure their votes are counted
In the past election, in 2015, more than 3,000 ballots cast at the Spanish Consulate in Rome did not make it to the final counting
As the race for the Catalan election tightens, every vote could be decisive—including those coming from overseas. This is why a network of 818 volunteers is working to control the number of votes arriving in around a hundred Spanish embassies and consulates all around the world, so as to then be able to check them against the total absentee ballots counted on December 21.
The initiative was created by the association ‘Catalans al món’ (Catalans throughout the world). Its president Sergi Marzábal said in an interview with the Catalan News Agency (ACN) that voters living overseas go through a process with “many dark spots” in order to make their votes count.