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Bundestag election: marathon and breakdowns cause chaos in Berlin

2021-09-28T17:18:39.050Z


With missing ballot papers, long waiting times and a marathon taking place parallel to the election, the problems are increasing on the day of the federal election in Berlin in 2021.


With missing ballot papers, long waiting times and a marathon taking place parallel to the election, the problems are increasing on the day of the federal election in Berlin in 2021.

Berlin - There is hardly a place in Germany where the 2021 federal election * determines the day as much as in Germany's capital - and hardly where do the reports of breakdowns pile up as in Berlin.

Long queues in front of the polling stations, missing ballot papers and a marathon taking place on election day in the city center bring Berlin into the news even before the election parties of the parties, which will attract attention that evening.

Because despite a record number of ballot papers for postal voting - a total of around 950,000 with 2.45 million eligible voters - many Berliners streamed into the polling stations, where, in addition to the votes for the federal election, it was also a matter of voting for the district assembly and the referendum “Deutsche Wohnen Expropriate & Co. ”vote.

By Sunday noon, the regional returning officer reported a provisional voter turnout of 27.4 percent.

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In front of many polling stations in Berlin, a number of voters stood in line on Sunday.

© Georg Hilgemann / dpa

The 2021 federal election causes chaos in the capital: Bad timing for the Berlin marathon

The long queues in front of the polling stations are not only due to the large number of ballot and voting slips and the distance requirements due to the Corona * virus. In some of the 2,257 Berlin polling stations, in addition to access restrictions in the rooms, the problem was also missing ballot papers. In a polling station in Neukölln, in order to shorten the waiting time, an additional voting booth was improvised with a moving box, which was specially approved by the state election management. This was reported by the news portal T-Online.de

The AFP news agency, for example, reported a breakdown at a polling station in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg, where the ballot papers at a polling station had run out.

Although supplies were on their way, they were stuck in a traffic jam due to the Berlin Marathon taking place at the same time.

The Tagesspiegel also reported similar cases in other polling stations.

Breakdowns in Berlin: Bundestag election 2021 not affected by problems with ballot papers

The federal returning officer replied to questions about this on Twitter: The state returning officer had announced that there were no second ballots for the election to the House of Representatives in polling stations in Berlin.

As it turned out on election day, polling stations had received second ballots from another district.

The general election is not affected by this.

With regard to the waiting times in front of the polling stations, he assured that those eligible to vote who were in the polling room by 6 p.m. on election day or were in front of it for reasons of space could cast their votes.

The first projections * can be expected shortly after the polling stations close at 6 p.m.

(ska / AFP)

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List of rubric lists: © Georg Hilgemann / dpa

Source: merkur

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