In Germany, voting by mail was an exception in the good old days. You had to have convincing arguments, e.g., being absent from your place of voting on Election Day. Sundays were chosen as voting days to ensure a high turnout at the polls because people having travel jobs make it a point to be home for the weekend.
On the other hand, left-leaning parties argued that Catholics had chosen Sunday as Election Day during the Weimar Republic so that the pastor had the last chance to remind his sheep from the pulpit to vote for the Catholic party (Zentrumspartei) when leaving the mess for the polling station.
In Germany, absentee ballots have dramatically increased over the years. Today every citizen has the right to choose freely between going to the polls or voting by mail. During the pandemic, a record number of postal ballots is expected.
Here is the point. In 2021, Germany faces a super-election year.
March 14, state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.
June 6, a state election in Saxony-Anhalt
September 26, Super Sunday, state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin, Thuringia, and the Federal election of the Bundestag (House of Representatives).
On March 14, Red Baron is called upon to vote in Baden-Württemberg’s state election.
I’ll walk to my polling station at the Walter-Eucken-Gymnasium (a high school and not a sports hall) and will place my ballot into the box.
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