This is how postal voting works in the regional elections for the Assembly of Extremadura on December 21st.

Madrid, December 3, 2025 –  The regional elections for the Assembly of Extremadura will be held on December 21, 2025. Correos (the Spanish postal service) has adopted all the necessary organizational measures for the proper execution of its assigned tasks during the electoral process and for the management of postal voting.

Since December 1st, the Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Census Office in Extremadura have been sending electoral documentation to people who have already requested to vote by mail.

Application for postal voting: via the web or in offices, until December 11

Voters who wish to vote by mail in the regional elections to the Assembly of Extremadura can still request their Electoral Census Certificate until December 11 (inclusive), either online or in person at any Correos office in Spain.

Online Application for Postal Voting and How to Check It:
Voters can apply for their postal vote through the Correos website ( www.correos.es ), without having to go to a post office in person. This online application process, which eliminates the need to travel, requires applicants to verify their identity with an electronic signature. Valid identification methods include digital certificates issued by the Ministry of Industry or the electronic National Identity Document (DNI-e).

People who have applied to vote by mail electronically can check the status of their application on the website www.correos.es via the following link .

Application for a postal vote at post offices:
Applications for postal votes can be made at any post office in Spain. This application must be made in person by each voter, except in cases of illness or disability—certified by an official medical certificate—that prevents them from making the application personally. In this case, it may be submitted on behalf of the voter by another person authorized by a notary public or consular official.

At the time of making the application, interested parties must prove their identity by presenting their original National Identity Document, passport or driver's license to the postal office staff.

Both the online and in-person applications require you to indicate the address where you will be staying during the period in which the Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Census Office in Extremadura send the necessary documentation to vote, a process that began on December 1st. 

Once the application has been submitted online or in person, if it is accepted by the Electoral Census Office, it will not be possible to vote at the polling station on the day of the regional elections to the Assembly of Extremadura.

Hand delivery of electoral documentation

After verifying the registration of postal vote applicants in the electoral census, the Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Census Office in Extremadura send the electoral documentation (certificate of registration in the census, envelopes, and ballot papers for all candidates) to the address indicated by the voter in the application, via certified and urgent mail. These mailings have been taking place since December 1st.

The postman will make at least two attempts to deliver this documentation by hand to the recipient, leaving a notice for them to pick it up at the nearest office if it was not possible to make that delivery by hand.

To make the delivery, the postal staff will verify the voter's identity using their ID card, passport or driver's license and will note the identification document number, attesting to the receipt of the envelopes and ballots with the signature of the delivery by the applicant.

How to request that electoral documentation be forwarded to another address.
Once the Electoral Census Office (OCE) has sent the electoral documentation to the address indicated by the applicant, the Central Electoral Board allows the resending of this electoral documentation to another address, provided there is an express request from the voter. For example, if a person has requested to receive the electoral documentation at one address and has to leave before receiving it, they can carry out this procedure at any computerized post office . To do so, they must provide the registration number of the electoral documentation they wish to have resend, which can be obtained from the following OCE website: https://sede.ine.gob.es/ce-votoxcorreo/?lang=es_ES .

You can request that the documents be forwarded to another address or post office. In any case, it is important for the voter to keep in mind that they must request this forwarding with enough time for the post office to deliver their documents to the new address.


Vote deposit: until December 17

The applicant has until Wednesday, December 17, to deposit the envelope with their vote at any post office throughout Spain, during its opening hours.

In accordance with the instructions of the Central Electoral Board, this election requires voters to personally deliver the necessary documentation to post offices to cast their ballot by mail. To do so, when depositing their postal ballot, voters must identify themselves by presenting their original National Identity Document, passport, or driver's license, or any other valid document that allows for voter identification, which postal staff will then verify.

Authorization to Delegate Ballot Deposit:
Individuals who requested a postal vote but are unable to personally go to the Post Office to deposit their ballot must authorize another person to deliver it on their behalf. The authorization must be signed by the voter and accompanied by a photocopy of their National Identity Document, passport, or other official identification document, as well as a photocopy of the identification document of the person they are authorizing.

To facilitate the drafting of this authorization document with all the necessary information, Correos recommends using the authorization template that can be downloaded from the website www.correos.es .

Postal staff will not accept the delivery of electoral documentation belonging to another voter unless it is accompanied by the corresponding authorization signed by the voter, which must be kept, along with a photocopy of the official document accrediting the voter and the person delivering the electoral documentation on their behalf, for its referral to the corresponding Electoral Board.

Citizens wishing to exercise their right to vote by mail are advised not to wait until the last day and to take advantage of the extended opening hours of post offices.

Census cards and election propaganda

In addition to the tasks directly related to postal voting, Correos' collaboration in the regional elections to the Assembly of Extremadura also extends to the distribution of census cards and the sending of electoral propaganda, as well as sending the census list to the Town Halls, the collection of documentation on election day, etc.

All of these are public service obligations that Correos has been entrusted with as the operator designated by the State to provide the Universal Postal Service in Spain.

In addition, in some cases, Correos is also responsible for sending communications to the members of the Electoral Boards.

All necessary resources

Correos is putting all the necessary technological, logistical and human resources into place to guarantee compliance with the commitments entrusted to it in the electoral processes.

Specifically, Correos will reinforce customer service across its network of 2,380 offices throughout Spain, especially in the 81 offices in Extremadura. Exclusive counters may be set up for elections, and if demand requires it, additional tables specifically designated for processing postal votes will be installed in the lobby.

In addition, the network of offices will have 1,325 PDAs, 15 of them in Extremadura, to speed up customer service in offices with the highest volume of postal votes, and an employee will be in charge of managing the queues, also using a PDA.

The use of the appointment system, already operational in 536 offices nationwide, 12 of them in Extremadura, will also be expanded. Furthermore, in offices where necessary, a "Postal Vote" option will be activated in the queue management system to prioritize service or direct it to specific departments, all with the aim of streamlining service and reducing waiting times at offices during the election period.

Regarding the distribution network, it will also have additional PDAs to facilitate the delivery of election materials. Furthermore, transport routes for sending documents from the logistics center to all distribution units will be adapted according to need. Service will also be reinforced at all logistics centers, including the Automated Processing Center in Mérida (Badajoz) and the one located at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, to ensure the proper management of international shipments.

Source: Correos