Mojácar Padrón (Our Town - your Town)

The Town Hall of Mojácar has just published a plea to all residents (well, the English-speaking ones) to register on the padrón now. The padrón is, of course, a town hall's register of inhabitants. If you live here, you should be on it.
They are right to do so, as the more people registered as living in the municipality means more monies from Madrid, plus more licences, school-teachers, policemen, medics, bus routes and so on. Information is not passed to any sinister tax office or secret bunker. It is used wholly for clerical purposes, like figuring out how many Brits live in Spain (as we know, a wildly inaccurate total). With a giant influx of summer tourists, who of course don't figure on the padrón, it is vital to bring the true numbers of residents up to something approaching reality. Spaniards always register, it is only proper that foreign residents should too.
Normally, when you register, you are asked to fill in a form confirming that you, as a EU citizen, would like to vote in either or both the European and local elections when the time comes (May 2019, since you ask). There is no mention of this egregious formality in the Town Hall's current invitation.
Until now, the Town Hall has never published a call for registration on the padrón, probably because, since the nineteen nineties, the British residents here had the vote in municipal elections, a privilege which will probably be removed from us with the arrival of Brexit. While only about 20% of us bothered to vote, that was still several hundred papeletas in the elections, going, we are sad to report, every which way!
So, no more threat from pesky and confused Brits about how to run the Town Hall.