Many voters in Saxony-Anhalt request postal ballots before state election
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- About 335,000 of Saxony-Anhalt’s roughly 1.69 million eligible voters had received postal ballot documents by Aug. 25.
- The figure represents about 20% of the electorate and exceeds the 315,567 people who voted by mail in the previous state election.
- The deadline for ordinary applications is Sept. 4 at 3 p.m., with limited exceptions for sudden illness on election day.
About one in five eligible voters in Saxony-Anhalt had already received postal voting documents before Sunday’s state election, according to the state statistics office in Halle.
The figure stood at about 335,000 people out of an electorate of roughly 1.69 million as of Aug. 25. It is higher than the 315,567 voters who cast postal ballots in the previous state election five years ago.
The deadline to request documents ends on Friday. The state election authorities said applications could be submitted until 3 p.m. on Sept. 4, 2026. In exceptional cases, including sudden illness, voters can still apply on election day until 3 p.m.
Interest varies across constituencies. The lowest rate appeared in constituency 33, Merseburg, where only 8% of eligible voters had received postal voting documents.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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