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Election in Berlin: Next glitch discovered on ballot paper

2023-01-12T15:57:01.789Z


Election in Berlin: next glitch discovered on ballot paper Created: 01/12/2023, 16:46 By: Daniel Dillman Postal voting documents for the repeat election in Berlin. (Iconic image) © Jens Kalaene/dpa The election to the House of Representatives in Berlin must be repeated. But even on the second attempt, one breakdown follows the next. Berlin - The repeat election in Berlin has apparently produc


Election in Berlin: next glitch discovered on ballot paper

Created: 01/12/2023, 16:46

By: Daniel Dillman

Postal voting documents for the repeat election in Berlin.

(Iconic image) © Jens Kalaene/dpa

The election to the House of Representatives in Berlin must be repeated.

But even on the second attempt, one breakdown follows the next.

Berlin - The repeat election in Berlin has apparently produced the next glitch.

This time it concerns ballot papers that were produced in the Berlin district of Neukölln.

Specifically, a candidate from the FDP who no longer lives in Berlin was named on a ballot paper in the Neukölln 2 constituency.

This was announced by the state returning officer of the capital on Thursday afternoon, according to the

DPA

news agency .

This glitch now has an impact on the repeat election in Berlin.

Votes previously cast for this candidate by postal vote are invalid.

Postal voting in Berlin has been possible since January 2nd of this year.

The FDP can no longer nominate a replacement candidate for the repeat election.

Repeat election in Berlin: Ballot papers have to be reprinted

New ballot papers are now being printed in the capital for the affected constituency in Neukölln.

According to the election officer, around 1,700 eligible voters have cast their votes by post.

You should now be written to individually by the state returning officer authority.

If these people want to change their choice for the first vote, this should be made possible.

In this case, you can cast your first vote again on a newly printed ballot paper.

The earlier ballot paper would then no longer be taken into account.

However, those entitled to vote cannot vote for an FDP candidate even if the repeat election is repeated.

In 2021, Dr.

Susanna Maria Kahlefeld from the Greens were able to win the Neukölln 2 constituency.

At that time, the FDP had received 2.6 percent of the first votes in this constituency.

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Stephan Bröchler, state returning officer in Berlin, tried to put the significance of the glitch into perspective.

"There are no one hundred percent smooth elections - neither in the federal government nor in the federal states." Important are "transparency, quick error correction and close controls." That said Bröchler according to the

dpa

.

Redial in Berlin: one mishap follows the next

It's not the first glitch in the repeat election in Berlin.

As early as the first week of the new year, it became public that election notifications had been sent out in the capital, in which two different election dates were given.

Notifications sent in English were affected.

The fact that the Berlin elections have to be repeated at all is due to a whole series of mishaps that occurred in the elections to the House of Representatives and in the elections to the district assemblies (BVV) in September 2021.

The Berlin Constitutional Court subsequently declared the election invalid.

However, the judges did not order a new election, but a re-election.

This was set for February 12, 2023 by state returning officer Bröchler.

Because this is a repetition, neither the election proposals nor the electoral area division may change.

(dil/dpa)

Source: merkur

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