Uncollected votes at the same level as 2008

The number of uncollected votes until yesterday was similar to that of 2008, even though this time around there were three more weeks to distribute the documents. By yesterday morning 8,200 voting documents for the general election remained uncollected, according to the Chief Electoral Commissioner Saviour Gauci. People have until mid-night tonight to collect all their voting documents. In 2008 some 6,300 documents were uncollected by Wednesday, which worked out to about two per cent of the 315,357 registered voters in that election. This year, there are 333,006 registered voters and the 8,200 uncollected votes represent 2.4 per cent of this figure. Mr Gauci said that 1,200 documents were collected from the Commission’s offices on Monday and 664 on Tuesday. The collection of documents carries on until midnight from the Electoral Commission’s Office in Valletta. The boxes with the ballots will start arriving at the counting hall in Naxxar on Saturday at around 10pm. Staff at the counting hall will start opening them in the morning and sorting the votes in batches of 50. The sorting of first count votes will only start on Sunday at 11am. As is done usually, counters will start going...