Burgenland Election: Printing of Ballots Over Christmas
This week, the state election proposals will be submitted and the printing presses will be running over Christmas, as all samples, ballot papers and announcement posters are being printed, explained state election officer Bernhard Ozlsberger on Monday.
Since mid-November, the electoral rolls have been publicly displayed in the municipalities. Approximately 100 corrections had to be handled by the municipal election authorities, and hardly any complaints were brought to the state administrative court. The electoral rolls will be completed on Tuesday, and the final number of eligible voters will be announced the following day. The provisional number is 250,324 people.
Burgenland Election: Preference Votes Decide in Districts
By last Friday, the parties running for election had to submit their district election proposals. They will be checked until December 23 and published on Monday evening. These are central to the allocation of mandates in the first investigation procedure. The preference votes decide which candidates from the district lists will enter the state parliament - the order in which they are listed here no longer matters.
On Wednesday, December 18, the deadline for submitting the state election proposals to the state election authority expires. They are needed for the second investigation procedure and will be announced on December 27. After the turn of the year, on January 5, the polling stations, the prohibition zones and the voting times will be determined.
But already over Christmas, all documents will be printed. The Wograndl printing company in Mattersburg has been commissioned to do this. The deadline until the election is tight, similar to 2020, when the election was held on January 26, state election officer Ozlsberger noted: "The printing is quick, but the folding is elaborate. The fold must not go through a name, so that no one is disadvantaged and the ballot paper must then fit into the envelope. This with consistent quality over thousands of ballot papers."
Absentee Voting, Early Voting Day and January 19
Ballots can be requested in writing until January 15 or until 12 noon on January 17, if a personal handover to the applicant or an authorised person is possible. An oral request is also possible until 12 noon on January 17 by personal appearance. On the early voting day, issuance is only possible until 12 noon.
Voting can be done by absentee ballot immediately upon collection of the ballot in the municipality or regardless of location with the absentee ballot, whereby the absentee ballot must arrive at the municipality no later than 2 pm on January 17. The absentee ballot can also be handed in on election day at the polling station during opening hours, whereby the polling station must be located in the voter's constituency. On election day, voting can be done with a ballot card - at the polling station during opening hours within one's own constituency.
The early voting day takes place on January 10, before the regular election day takes place on January 19. In the Burgenland state parliament, 36 mandates are up for grabs, with the threshold for entry being four percent. There are expected to be six parties on the ballot paper.
(APA/Red)
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