A Spanish people vote in two minutes

USPA NEWS - Villarroya is a town of La Rioja, 60 kilometers southeast of Logrono, the capital, election after election breaks the world record for speed in the vote. In the last European elections, its citizens voted in three minutes; Sunday in local and regional elections, they did in two.

Villarroya has nine inhabitants and is the first Spanish people who vote. They do all their neighborhood, according to the mayor, Salvador Perez, agree to vote at nine o'clock in the morning, when they open the polling station of the municipality, so that electoral board members do not have to wait all day to receive the votes of a census so small. Therefore, Villarroya is always the first Spanish town that ends and sends the result of the vote to the data collection center in Madrid.

Sunday May 24, in local and regional elections, residents of Villarroya voted in two minutes, even faster than in previous elections, European, when it took three minutes to cast their ballots. But besides the speed, the other important fact is that in Villarroya rate 100% of the voters. None of the nine people stay home when they go to the polls to vote.

The mayor says that in addition to thinking about the welfare of the residents who should serve as members of the polling station, the speed used to record the talk of Villarroya in newspapers, radio and television; a free media promotion in the small town of La Rioja get for they commitment to democracy and community. This Rioja village just have to appear in the Guinness World Records.