More than a thousand voting cards not issued: reports Utrecht

The matter came to light because a resident reported it over a week ago. He said he and his neighbors did not receive a voting card.

Mail seems to be missing

PostNL, responsible for issuing passes, then conducted an investigation at the request of the municipality. What seems? A delivery man did not deliver all the mail in the thirteen streets, or 1,160 voters according to RTV Utrecht have not received their voting card.

The investigation did not make it possible to clearly determine what happened to the mail, and therefore also to the voting cards. “I take the non-delivery of voting cards very seriously,” Mayor Sharon Dijksma wrote in a council letter yesterday.

“Given the seriousness of the situation, a report will therefore be made to the police.” As it is unclear what happened to the post, an investigation is also underway to determine if there has been a data breach.

Prevent Fraud

To ensure that voters receive their voting cards on time, new voting cards are now sent to streets where they were not issued. The voting card comes with a letter explaining what happened. To prevent fraud, undelivered voting cards were declared invalid.

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