More than 7,000 people will cast their vote today for the spring hunting referendum and local elections in half of the localities in Malta and Gozo.

The people eligible to vote today are those who will be abroad next Saturday (just over 2,000) and people in old people's homes and hospitals.

Those going abroad who applied to vote today may do so at the vote-counting complex in Naxxar, while the elderly and hospital patients can vote in the old people's homes and hospitals.

Early voting continues on Friday when assistant electoral commissioners and policemen engaged on duty on Saturday will vote a day early.

The vote-counting process will start soon after the ballot boxes close next Saturday night. The referendum ballots will be counted first, with the counting of the local election votes on the following weekend. 

Some 10% of voting documents have not been collected yet - the biggest number being in St Paul's Bay.

They can be collected up to this evening from police stations (or council offices where there are no police stations) between 9am and 1pm  and from 2.30pm to 10pm, or up to Thursday night at Naxxar counting hall.

 

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