As of: February 22, 2024, 1:00 p.m
By: Peter Schiebel
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There will no longer be a ballot box in the Hanfeld district of Starnberg in the future.
The villagers have to deposit their ballot papers at the depot.
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The Hanfeld electoral district is too small for the city in the long term.
The city council therefore decided to eliminate the polling station from the European elections onwards.
Starnberg - In the European elections on June 9, 2024, there will be one fewer polling station in Starnberg than in previous elections - and this primarily has an impact on the people of Hanfeld.
Your traditional voting district 12 “Hanfeld Schützen- und Fire Station” will be merged with voting district 4 “Depot”.
In the future, the ballot box will be in the depot.
The city council decided this on Monday evening against the vote of Franz Heidinger (BLS) at the suggestion of the administration.
The background is the low frequency of the Hanfeld polling station.
“In order to maintain the secrecy of the vote, at least 50 voters must have placed the voting documents in the ballot box,” explained the city’s returning officer Kathrin Spielbauer in the draft resolution.
If this is not the case, the voting district must be merged with another one.
And that has consequences on election day: everything has to be packed up in one polling station and unpacked again in the receiving voting district.
With 166 eligible voters, voting district 12 in Hanfeld is by far the smallest in Starnberg.
In the 2020 local elections, for the first time, fewer than 50 of them cast their ballot papers on site, in the 2021 federal election there were 53 voters, and in the state and district elections last year 71. In order to reduce the effort, the European elections are now being merged Voting district 4, which, with 1,107 eligible voters, is one of the largest of the 18 future voting districts in Starnberg.
The city council also decided that every volunteer election worker would receive a refreshment allowance of 50 euros on June 9th.
According to Spielbauer, around 200 volunteers will be needed on election day.
Municipal employees also receive the 50 euro expense allowance and a working day credit.
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