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There was excitement on Sunday at a polling station in Wieden: a FPÖ electoral adviser who had traveled from Upper Austria appeared without a mask, but with a medical certificate. Another Wieden election adviser posted a photo of the certificate on Twitter. The letter is likely to have been issued by the Bad Aussee doctor against whom two disciplinary proceedings are currently underway. He is accused of having issued certificates exempting him from the mask requirement without further investigation. He had offered the certificates for a fee and in informal inquiries via the Internet. Subsequently, the user announced that the woman had been expelled from the polling station and that a substitute evaluator of the FPÖ was present.
Otherwise, the election in the sign of Corona went smoothly until noon. As announced by a spokesperson for the electoral authority, no incidents have been reported in the nearly 1,500 polling stations. The process was easy, he said. “The Viennese adhere well and with discipline to the measures of the Crown,” said the spokesman. That is why they also wanted to thank the voters, he emphasized.
At the polling stations this year, visitors are faced with folders that, among other things, must follow distance rules and Plexiglas screens. The background to the special device is that mouth and nose protection must be worn at the polling station. However, voters must take it from the electoral authority for identification. Transparent “identification paravents” should offer protection.
Video: These hygiene standards are applied in polling stations.
