Berlin Court Orders Do-Over of State Elections After Glitches at Polling Stations

Berlin Court Orders Do-Over of State Elections After Glitches at Polling Stations
A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Berlin on Sept. 26, 2021, during Berlin State and German federal elections. Jan Zappner/AFP via Getty Images
Lorenz Duchamps
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The 2021 regional parliamentary elections in the capital of Germany must be held again after a number of things went wrong on election day, the Constitutional Court of Berlin declared on Nov. 16.

The court has declared the elections in the state completely invalid after problems emerged including missing ballots or wrong ballots being issued to voters. Another issue was long queues outside many polling stations in the region as voters struggled with extra ballot papers.

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