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People waiting in front of a Berlin polling station on September 26th
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So far, 55 Berliners have given the party "The Party" affidavits by post about disagreements in the past elections in Berlin, including eight election workers.
So far, further declarations have only been received by email, including "a good 200 to be taken seriously," according to party chairman Martin Sonneborn.
The satirical party wants to challenge the parliamentary elections in Berlin and the federal election and has therefore called for appropriate insurance to be sent to them.
The "party" has activated a corresponding information platform called "Chaos Wahl Berlin" online.
According to the "party", nine of the reports received so far involved waiting times of more than two hours due to missing ballot papers, which in some cases led to voters giving up waiting.
A polling officer said that the voting process in his polling station was canceled from 4.30 p.m. due to missing ballot papers.
Later, up to 80 people who could not vote were entered as "present" in the electoral roll;
but a total of about 250 people could not have voted.
When a messenger came around 7 p.m. with 20 ballot papers, they were no longer given out because more than a hundred people were waiting and they didn't even know who to give the documents to.
In another polling station, 102 ballot papers for another district are said to have been issued;
these votes were "counted as invalid" during the counting.
Because of the election chaos in Berlin, state returning officer Petra Michaelis resigned.
She had previously announced an objection to the result of the parliamentary elections at the Constitutional Court.
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