Municipal agents are working hard to have the polling stations ready on Sunday June 30 for the first part of the legislative elections. In a warehouse in Bruges, near Bordeaux, the ballots are received before being redistributed to 153 polling stations.
“This is where we receive all the ballots from the different candidates,” explains one of the municipal agents. “Then we will sort them by number of offices”. A truly titanic piece of work. These municipal agents are tackling a colossal task. They are in charge of the first three constituencies of Gironde, which is equivalent to 153 polling stations.
In a logistics site located in Bruges, the ants are busy. Hurry up. The first round of elections will take place in less than a week. “There, I put the candidates’ ballots according to the number of registered per voting room“, explains Didier Truetta, also a municipal agent, a little further. “It’s physical”he admits.
In this warehouse located in Bruges, we receive the ballots sent by the candidates before distributing them to the different polling stations.
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To save time, ballots and envelopes are weighed and not counted one by one. “It’s not tedious, it’s just a little time-consuming and a little repetitive.” smiles Mylène Baget, district town hall manager at the Directorate of Reception, Support and Procedures. “It’s the game, we stick to it. There’s no problem. We adapt in relation to our usual missions. It’s a question of organization and solidarity between the teams. After me, I I find that we are always very good at working in an emergency. It also takes us out of our daily lives,” she believes.
And it’s rewarding to say that in such a short time, we managed to organize elections.
Mylène BagetDistrict town hall manager
Rather than counting them one by one, the ballots are weighed to save time.
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A priori, the timing should be respected, because the teams mobilized as soon as the dissolution of the National Assembly was announced. “The agents were put in working order on Monday morning. explains Delphine Jamet, deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of administration“Behind the logistics, you also have the service which will register all the proxies, all the requests for registration on the electoral lists. We therefore have a lot of agents who work on these elections“. In Bordeaux, more than 9,000 proxies have been registered to date.
“The question now is that of assessors and the recruitment of volunteers to man the polling stations. continues worried Delphine Jamet“There is a real challenge. For the two rounds, we are still missing around a hundred. Normally, we have 500 presidents and assessors to recruit. And we have three months to do it with poster campaigns, on social networks, or with the press But today, we have three weeks.“.
So I am really calling on the goodwill of Bordeaux residents to register on the City of Bordeaux website to become an assessor.
Delphine Jamet,Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux in charge of administration
If on June 30, there is still a shortage of assessors, concretely the first voters will be the first requisitioned. “In this case, you are asked as a voter registered on the electoral roll to play the role of assessor. concludes Delphine Jamet. “We have the right to vote and in return, we have duties.”
