Wahl in Bayern - Election day in Bavaria

Ich habe zum Spaß mal die Bayerische Landtags- und Bezirkstagswahl vom 28.9.2008 in meinem Heimatort Neubiberg mitgefilmt, viel Spaß.

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This is how an election is done in Bavaria:

Everyone above the age of 18 gets sent a polling card calling them to the urns (no need to register, you just need to be born).

On election day, you go to your local election office (in my case the public school I've been to as a little boy, because I didn't move away). You can also pre-order a postal vote with the form on the backside of the polling card, if you're not in town at that time.

At the election office, you collect your ballot papers (in this case, four different ones with one vote each).

You then sit in a private booth on far too small schoolkids' furniture (quite a memory-shock), cross off one circle, which represents the person or party you want to elect, on each ballot paper. (It says so on the top: "Sie haben 1 Stimme" - "You have 1 vote")

Then you to the registry and show your polling card. If the people don't know you in person, you also have to ID yourself with your passport or national ID card. Then you're allowed to put your (color-coded) ballot papers into the respective urn.

The poll is counted out locally later (by the polling officers sitting there).

And that's one example of how we elect our government in Germany! In today's case our Bavarian government, that is.

By the way: The CSU party has lost its majority in Bavaria for the first time in over 50 years. They wanted to gain "50+x %", dreamt of 60%, but came out with about 43%. More about the election here:

German: http://tinyurl.com/landtagswahl2008

English (without any information at this time): http://tinyurl.com/4pry6a

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Whats the difference between the blue and white ballot papers?