This part of the guide I'm going to start by describing a known experimentation for selective attention. The experimentation is that the individual who participates in it has to watch a short video, where 6 people in the group who are constantly moving, pass the ball to each other. 3 are dressed in white, 3 in black. During a video that lasts about a minute, you gotta number how many times people dressed in white passed the ball
With specified a defined task, our head focuses only on bright figures and ignores characters in dark clothes. In the mediate of the video, through a group of people who service the ball, a man dressed as a gorilla passes. Most viewers participating in this experimentation do not announcement the gorilla, so much is focused on counting how many times people dressed in white have given the ball. I have the impression that in election themes we have this with the excitement of the consequence of each subsequent poll. Our electoral gorilla, on the another hand, is the steadily decreasing number of people who can vote. Has anyone noticed that over the last 4 years 800,000 voters have fallen in Poland?
Persons who are not on the Central registry of Voters will not vote
In 1 of its electoral messages, the State Election Commission stated that the people entitled to participate in the upcoming elections were 29.1 million in Poland. This means that over 800,000 people have lost in the country over the last 4 years who can vote. These numbers come from the voter registry and 99% are consistent with the number of people registered for permanent residence.
1% are those who signed up for the voter registry on request, where they actually live. This decline occurred to the top degree during the Covid-19 epidemic. From 1.10.2020 to 31.03. 2021, more than 500 000 people lost from the electoral registry in 1 and a half years and this is much more than reported by the deaths during the epidemic. By comparison, according to CSO data at the end of 2022 there were 30.8 million adults in Poland. We have 1.7 million Poles, which are not in the registry of voters. This gigantic difference between the CSO data and the electoral registry has various causes, but the basic fact is that the address of the check-in for many of us has ceased to be the actual address of residence. In addition, the check-in became seen as an unnecessary work and as a result, a number of people are increasing who have no check-in address. These people gotta join the electoral registry on their own request, otherwise they won't vote anywhere in the country.
Most residents without reporting in major cities
In 2011, erstwhile the current electoral code was passed, data in the electoral registry besides differed from data published by the CSO. According to the Central Statistical Office, the number of adults was 2.1% higher than the number of voters reported by PKW. Over the last 12 years, this difference deepened and at the end of 2022 was 5.6%. Worse still, visualization of these data on the Polish region map shows that the biggest disparities happen in metropolitan areas and in western Poland. This is where most people live who aren't in the electoral registry in the place where they actually live.
Figure 1 – percent difference of adults residing in the territory by CSO and PKW data. Orange colour – districts where more people live than they are registered.
W There are over 200 1000 specified people in Warsaw, almost 100 1000 in Wrocław in Krakow 87 thousand. any of them are registered outside Warsaw, any of them most likely have no report.
The map of the powiats besides shows that Central and east Poland are areas where the number of inhabitants according to the statistic of the Central Statistical Office is close to the number of persons checked in, these people will vote easy at the place of residence.
Central registry of Voters – what are the current data?
The Central registry of Voters was launched in August and data was transferred to it from registers previously maintained by the municipalities. There were many cases of people for whom this data was wrong. The scale of these discrepancies should not be large, but unfortunately it cannot be verified at the level of the municipality.
There's a way to do this, which is due to the fact that the 4th just ended. PKW is required to print current data on the number of residents and voters in the Central registry of Voters at the end of each quarter. usually these data were announced after about 30 days, due to the fact that it took time to collect them from all municipalities in Poland. Now that problem is gone. The Central registry of Voters study divided into municipalities can be generated by pressing the Enter key on the computer keyboard at the Ministry of Digitization. The opposition should request that these data be made public this week in order to be able to compare them with the state at 30.06 erstwhile the registers were inactive kept by the municipalities.
Check data in CRW
Before each election, it is worth checking the data about us in the Central registry of Voters. This can be done via the Internet, either in any municipality or territory office.
Check your data in the Central Voter Register
Any mistakes concerning our data in CRW are best explained in individual at any municipal or territory office. If we are not included in the electoral register, we should apply for entry in the electoral register. Persons who have no check-in address will besides be entered in the Central registry of Voters with the same address upon check-in.
Check-in requires confirmation of ownership of the premises, so it is not possible for people renting the apartments. The addition to the registry of voters is much simpler – a paper is needed confirming that we actually live in a given municipality. This could be a lease agreement for the apartment; a message from the owner (rentee) of the flat in which we live; a bill for the electricity on which our data is stored. You can submit your application online on the website Apply for entry in the electoral register attaching a scan of the applicable paper confirming the actual residence. A trusted profile is required for this, i.e. authorization through a bank site. The application can besides be made in conventional form, at the municipality office where we live. The application is up to 5 days and after a affirmative decision the individual is entered in the electoral register.
Change of voting place
After we make certain that we are correctly listed in the Central registry of Voters, we can change the voting place in the upcoming elections to 12.10. Could usage Page https://gov.pl/web/gov/change-place-vote And give me the address where we'll be on election day. The strategy will delegate us to the next electoral commission, and that's where we'll be included in the electoral roster. This happens automatically and does not require authoritative interference. If necessary, we can change the voting place again. From 13.10 specified changes will not be possible.
The second method is to go to the municipal / territory office and collect a certificate of voting rights. It is worth remembering that we can do this anywhere in Poland, not only in the village where we are registered. After issuing this certificate, we will be removed from the electoral roster for the next election. On election day, we can vote on any committee in the country. If we lose the right to vote, we cannot vote.
In an image form in a minute, all this information is summarised by a video prepared by PKW:
In another election themes, I sincerely urge the YouTube PKW channel, on which there are a number of animated videos that briefly explain various another election issues.
Announcement of the Electoral Tourism Recommendation
My applicable election guide is almost over. In the coming days, I will print my recommendations, where, in my opinion, our electoral vote has the best chance of affecting the mandate consequence of the 15 October elections. These recommendations will cover individual lists of the Democratic Opposition. They will include 2 elements – in which territory our preferred organization has real chances of fighting for another mandate, and where the strength of our vote is greater. erstwhile deciding on a vote in another district, it is crucial to vote according to your beliefs and not change the list you would vote for at your place of residence. It is besides crucial to stick to the stated goal in which a territory on a mass scale will vote.
160 1000 certificates
Today it can be said that electoral tourism will bring additional mandates for the opposition in these elections. According to the information provided by Gazeta Wyborcza on 3 October, 160 1000 certificates of voting rights have already been collected in the offices in Poland, in any offices in Warsaw queues of people who came for specified a certificate have been formed in fresh days. Today, it is 4 times the number in the 2019 election, and by 12.10 more than a week. too that number, there's inactive a bunch of people who've changed the voting place over the Internet. I'm truly built for it. What a year ago was discussed among professionals as theoretically possible, now becomes a method of equalising the electoral chances between the opposition and the PiS. present it is known that respective 100 1000 voters will consciously vote in another territory to increase the chances of opposition parties getting more tickets.
Let us besides remember that election tourism is simply a kind of boost to the election consequence calculated in mandates, but the result of these choices will find our commitment in the coming days. The most crucial thing is that we usage opposition voters of the remaining electoral run days to convince the undecided. I wrote more about this in the erstwhile part of the guide: Opposition elector – you have better candidates and don't be afraid to usage them to convince the indecisive! applicable Election Guide, Part 5
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For persistent readers, a video from an experimentation for selective attention:
