Hundreds of thousands of invalid ballot papers: chaos before the Bundestag election!

In the run -up to the 2025 Bundestag election, there are significant problems with faulty ballot papers that affect hundreds of thousands of voters. In the electoral circles Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel (Lower Saxony) and Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia), numerous ballot papers must be printed again due to compressed errors, which leads to a delay in sending the postal voting documents.

In the constituency of Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel, a serious booklet on the short name of the Marxist-Leninist party in Germany appeared. Instead of the correct abbreviation MLPD, the falsely abbreviation MLDP appears on the faulty ballot. Around 190,000 ballots are invalid in this constituency. The sending of the postal voting documents was temporarily suspended due to these errors; A resumption of shipping is expected on February 10, 2025.

error in the Wesel district

In the Wesel district, almost 70,000 ballot papers have to be printed again due to a typing error in the name of a list candidate of the "Mera25" party. The first delivery of the corrected ballot papers is planned for the upcoming weekend. Complied election letters or votes that have already been submitted with the faulty notes are invalid, which is why the voters have to return their votes with the help of the new documents.

According to the district election manager, the new ballot papers are already in preparation and are produced by the commissioned printing company. The district election manager Heiko Beddig confirmed that the pollen of the affected cities and municipalities were informed about the incident and that one was working hard on the provision of the corrected documents. Some cities and municipalities have already sent postal voting documents that must now be invalid.

The Situation presents the electoral authorities with organizational challenges, and the voters are asked for understanding. Further details on the incidents can be read on the relevant pages, such as fris and regionalheute.de .