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A ballot envelope for postal voting in the federal election lies on a table.
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During the partial repeat of the federal election in Berlin, the state election management recorded two cases in which there were delays.
In a polling station (605/606) in the Pankow district, a key for a locked room with the voting documents was missing, as state returning officer Stephan Bröchler described to the German Press Agency on Sunday.
Berlin - The electoral board did not receive the key from the daycare center there.
Documents were then delivered by the district, so that the restaurant opened at 8:40 a.m. with a 40-minute delay.
The RBB had previously reported on this case.
In Kreuzberg, according to Bröchler, an electoral board was delayed due to an accident with a taxi, so that the polling station in question also started late.
“This can happen with the best organization,” said the state returning officer.
At a polling station in Pankow, a board member was replaced by his deputy because he was said to have been “uncooperative”.
There were no delays there.
Even if these “low-threshold” cases are annoying for Bröchler, there were no major incidents on Sunday until the early afternoon.
Everything is in the “green area”.
Bröchler therefore continues to hope that voter turnout will not be low.
The polling stations had been open since 8 a.m. and were scheduled to close at 6 p.m.
On September 26, 2021, Berlin botched both the federal election and the elections to the House of Representatives and the district parliaments in an unprecedented way.
Long queues in front of polling stations, missing or incorrect ballot papers, a temporary interruption in voting in some places - the list of problems was long, and a lot has been changed since then.
The elections at the state and district level had already been completely repeated on February 12, 2023.
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