The Dutch government has said that it would adjust rules to accept certain mail-in ballots for the general election. This week's vote is being held during the COVID-19 pandemic and measures have been taken to protect voters from infection. Polling stations have been opened for three days to allow social distancing at ballot boxes, while more citizens have been asked to vote by post than ever before. Specifically, citizens aged 70 years or over were asked to vote by mail, many of them for the first time. As the first mail-in ballots were submitted, Dutch authorities received reports that postal voters had been submitting incorrect envelopes.