Latvia has recieved 557 voting applications from abroad

  • 2006-09-20
  • By TBT staff
RIGA 's The Central Election Commission has received 557 applications to vote by mail in the upcoming parliamentary from citizens abroad.
According to the commission's data, the largest number of applications, or 230, were received from Washington D.C..
As many as 29 Latvian citizens applied in Ottawa, 12 in Dublin, 81 in Berlin, 43 in Stockholm, 32 in Melbourne, 30 in Bonn, four in Helsinki, 30 in London, and nine in Brussels.
Other polling stations have received less applications, and nobody has applied to vote by mail in Russia, Estonia, Spain, and China, among other nations.