On March 31, votes were thrown away, the neighborhood went to the polls for the second time

Due to the discarded neighborhood council votes by a cleaning staff member in Edirne during the Local Administration General Elections on March 31, the residents of the neighborhood once again went to the ballot box today. The surprising incident took place in Edirne on Sunday, March 31, 2024. In Umurbey Neighborhood of Edirne, 6 ballot boxes were set up at Selimiye Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School for the citizens to vote. As the voting ended at 17:00, the ballot boxes were opened, and the counting process began. What happened? While the vote count was completed in 5 ballot boxes, a crisis occurred in the last box. As the ballots for the mayor and municipal council members were being counted from box 3153, the neighborhood council ballots were left on the edge of the table to be counted, but they were thrown away by the cleaning staff. Following the report by the ballot box officials, the District Election Board initiated an investigation and decided to repeat the neighborhood council elections in Umurbey Neighborhood on June 2. ‘They went to the polls again today’ Due to the mistake of the cleaning staff, the residents went to the polls once again today. The voting process in the 6 ballot boxes set up at Selimiye Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School started at 08:00. By the end of the voting process that will last until 17:00, the neighborhood will have chosen its council leader. The mayoral candidates Turhan Özgünden and Hasan Çilingir stated that due to the cleaning staff member discarding the ballots on March 31, a decision for a re-election was made, leading the residents to go back to the polls. The residents who came to vote expressed that they have fulfilled their civic duty.