By The Star Staff
State Elections Commission Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera gave three days to early voters who did not include a copy of their identification when they mailed their ballots, to certify their addresses to the Administrative Board for Absentee and Early Voting (JAVA by its acronym in Spanish).
Some 450 voters who did not submit identification with their absentee or mail-in ballots will receive an official call from the SEC in the next few days to verify their address, the official said.
“The Administrative Board for Absentee and Early Voting is currently validating those applications that are still pending validation, mainly in the address, when they provided an address that is different from the General Registry of Voters, in which case we have to validate that in effect that address is valid,” Padilla Rivera said.
Asked whether envelopes whose addresses cannot be validated will be canceled, she said “we will be calling and making arrangements with the voters until the scrutiny is finished.”
According to the data provided by the official, the SEC has received 136,713 envelopes containing mail-in ballots, out of some 145,917 requests they received for such ballots. For absentee voting, meanwhile, the agency received 6,806 envelopes.
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