Vienna elections last until 5 pm Ludwig does not believe in absolutes

A local inspection at the extraordinary electoral college in Vienna on Sunday morning.

You can still choose a good two hours in Vienna. All polling stations close at 5 pm Here again the most important information about voting.

The Vienna City Council is available for the various reports, screenings and live debates.

One of the hygiene measures for the election is for voters to bring their own pen and then take it home. A small trend should emerge in this regard:

The former head of Neos, Matthias Strolz, does not have the right to vote in Vienna, but calls all Viennese in a Twitter video something strange to use their right to vote: “Get involved in your affairs!”

The Greens’ election party is also canceled due to the crown, reports his colleague Raffaela Lindorfer. The green ministerial team arrives at Birgit Hebein town hall in the evening and follows the first screenings together.

The vice chancellor and party leader Werner Kogler is still in Graz on election day, his deputy Stefan Kaineder is traveling from Upper Austria. And the green club meets through Zoom-Meeting.

Like most of the other leading candidates, Team HC’s leading candidate Heinz-Christian Strache did not go to a polling station today. The portal of satire The daily press has its own theory.

The #beifunk hashtag is traditionally a trend on Twitter on election days. Election advisers brainstorm with other tweeters about weird remarks and other (legal) stuff. Apparently, bingo is also played at the voting tables.

Dear colleagues from the video department have also been on duty throughout the day today. His Finding: Vote in the Pandemic? No problem.

The main candidate of the Beer Party, Dominik Wlazny, alias Dr. Marco Pogo, was one of the few candidates who attended an electoral college in person today. Before that, the little party posted this video on the net.

Karl Schleritzko has worked in elections for more than 40 years. “People are more considerate this time,” says Schleritzko. Without a mask, no one would have tried to enter the voting station, says the veteran of the polls.

Today there is nothing to celebrate for anyone. The coronavirus is also putting a wrench in the work of the holidays when it comes to shaping the day. All election ceremonies today have been canceled.

Anyone heading to the polling station today faces relatively cold temperatures. At least it stayed mostly dry in the morning, only in the afternoon it should rain more heavily.

At first it was not known how the participation was going. Because the Viennese authority no longer announces an intermediate result on election day. However, it can be assumed that the rush at the polling stations is relatively less this year due to the large number of mail-in voters.

As always, there is one or another curiosity on the edge of the choice that worries the “Twitteria”. This year it is a certificate that the owner of an election presented to the FPÖ and exempts her from the mask requirement.

Aside from this already upsetting some voters, the certificate was issued by an all-people doctor, who has already been banned from working as a result.

The doctor practicing in Bad Aussee had already been singled out in recent months as a critic of the system regarding the corona pandemic. He appeared at demonstrations by crown deniers, started a class action lawsuit against the mask requirement, and according to his own statement, he is said to have issued hundreds of certificates exempting patients from the mask requirement. Therefore, the medical association temporarily banned the medical profession. More here:

Johanna Reim (81) was “back outside in just two minutes”: if you know what you want, then it’s fast. Safety precautions don’t bother me, I always wear the mask. That’s normal. It is always good to choose here in the arsenal. I am going to Rome now and have booked to be able to choose.

Viennese voters are apparently obediently following the security regulations in today’s Corona vote. As announced by a spokesperson for the APA 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.

The Vienna vote, and our Chronik editorial team came out to ask how they were doing. The result is good-humored snapshots of a sunny election morning, summarized here by his colleague Birgit Seiser:

Úrsula lives in district 7: “I went to the voting station today and I was not afraid of it. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised because everything turned out so well. We didn’t have to wait long and vote with a mask and under the action. a problem “.

In order to avoid too much rush at the polling stations, the city of Vienna has pushed strongly for postal votes this year. This was reflected in a record number of voting cards issued: there are 382,214. This means that the share of absentee votes will increase enormously: Tall computers account for about 40 percent this year, compared to about 19 percent in 2015.

This makes it much more difficult for ARGE Wahlen and SORA supercomputers to estimate the result. Because for the extrapolation to the polls, they already have the first results on Sunday, which makes it easy to draw a conclusion about the overall result. However, projections for full results, including vote-by-mail, are also in demand Sunday. Voting cards are only counted on Monday, so there is no result on Sunday to draw any conclusions about the voting behavior of postal voters.