A technical breakdown affects the local elections in Bavaria. The election results were not currently displayed on the websites of numerous municipalities. However, the vote counts should not be affected.
- The 2020 local elections in Bavaria resulted in technical disruptions .
- The system of the Municipal Data Processing Institute showed electoral results on the websites of some municipalities with a delay or simply not.
- An AKDB spokesman emphasized that the vote count itself was not affected.
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Update of March 16, 9.46 a.m .: The technical malfunctions of the servers of the Municipal Data Processing Institute in Bavaria (AKDB) are probably due to the extremely high number of queries, a spokesman for the AKDB said on Monday. "The cause of the error could not yet be finally analyzed." However, the display has been up to date again since 1:20 am "and the servers are running smoothly," said the spokesman.
Update of March 15, 11:58 p.m .: As reported by the German Press Agency late on Sunday evening, the city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate had to postpone the counting of the city council election to Monday due to an unknown " software error ". A city spokesman said. On the evening of the election there were even problems with the presentation of election results across Bavaria.
The results were also difficult to access on the websites of Kempten and Kaufbeuren . There the results were recorded with the software of the Institute for Municipal Data Processing in Bavaria (AKDB) and played on the in-house servers. But the AKDB servers obviously had problems. It was similar with the presentation of results in Ingolstadt, where the AKDB software was used, but was operated on its own servers.
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Munich / Nuremberg - A technical breakdown in the system of the Municipal Data Processing Institute in Bavaria ( AKDB ) caused the Bavarian municipal elections to cause performance problems throughout Bavaria and a temporary standstill in vote counting in Erlangen.
Local elections 2020 in Bavaria: Technical breakdown affects the presentation of results
The news came from several voting districts on Sunday evening that the AKDB system , which is used in many municipalities for counting votes, was not working properly. First, the Franconian news portal nordbayern.de reported the breakdown. "There are currently disruptions in the Internet presentation of the election results on the websites of the municipalities, " said AKDB press spokesman Florian Kunstein on Sunday evening at Merkur.de's request. "The cause is still unclear." However, it is possible that the extremely high number of inquiries on the websites of the municipalities led to an overload of the system.
Citizens' interest in local elections is apparently unusual and unexpectedly strong. There are ten times as many page views as in the past European elections , Kunstein reported. "We are currently analyzing the problem and assume that it will be resolved later in the evening," announced the AKDB spokesman. He also emphasized that the disruption only affects the presentation of results on the website. The vote counting process was not affected . But not only for the AKDB, the local election was a bit bumpy. The Greens also did not do well - at least as far as the mayoral election is concerned.
By the way: You can read all the latest results and developments in the Munich municipal election * in our news ticker.
Local elections 2020 in Bavaria: A technical fault occurred as early as February
The technical glitch may not come as a complete surprise. Almost a month before the election, problems arose with the online application for postal voting documents , which was also handled in many municipalities via the AKDB, which is based in Munich.
The citizen service portal, through which the documents can be requested, was disrupted across Bavaria in February, antenne.de reported. A team of experts from the AKDB worked hard to analyze the cause of the error and made every effort to ensure that the portal could be used again as quickly as possible. With success: Around three days later the problem was resolved , br.de reported. After the problems arose, the AKDB checked and restarted all systems, Kunstein told the BR what to do about the last breakdown. There had also been speculation about a hacker attack in February. Kunstein, however, decisively rejected it. As the AKDB also announced on Twitter a few days ago, the institution recorded a record number of postal ballot applications .
# Local election2020: We have record numbers with the online application for # postal voting documents in BY: Over 750,000 online applications as of today! For comparison: In the # 2018 state election there were just over 340,000! @ BR24 @SZ_Bayern @ k21news @egovcomde @BehoerdenNews #eGovernment pic.twitter.com/HMEzCN7uJY
- AKDB (@akdb_de) March 12, 2020By the way: You can also find an overview of the overall results of the Bavarian local elections * on our news portal. Those who want to know which mayors are in the front in the cities and municipalities can find out on our overview of the results of the mayor election *. You can also find more information about the election on our local election topic page *.
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