Preselection

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Iraqi security forces in a preselection, which cannot vote on the actual election day because they are supposed to maintain public security on that day.

The pre-selection for elections or the advance voting in polls is the ability for election and voters, even before the actual voting - and / or election their vote by mail or at a polling station to submit.

Germany

In order to ensure voting secrecy and personal choice, a personal choice at the polling station was seen as indispensable. However, it is not possible for everyone to be in person at the polling station on election day . With the increasing mobility of citizens, the restriction to voting on election day in the polling station increasingly came into conflict with the principle of universal suffrage . Therefore, after the Second World War, the introduction of postal voting was intensively discussed and introduced for the 1957 Bundestag election .

Hesse

In Hesse , the ruling SPD initially rejected postal votes. With the law of July 4, 1962, however, a “preselection” was introduced, which was possible for the first time in the state elections in the same year . On the seven days before the election, those entitled to vote could vote early in special polling stations with a voting slip.

Before the next election in 1966 there was a referendum to introduce postal voting, but it failed. In response to the referendum, the pre-selection period was extended to 21 days. The election time was set by the municipality; it had to be at least one hour a day between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Also in 1966, the option was introduced for those entitled to vote who were physically unable to visit the polling station to cast their vote at home with a mobile electoral board with a voting slip from the third day before the election.

In 1970, postal voting was also introduced in Hessen. The possibility of pre-selection was thus eliminated.

Switzerland

In Switzerland an early vote is the rule - see also:

United States

Web links

Commons : Early voting  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: preselection  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

swell

  • Jakob Schissler: Principles of the political and economic development in Hesse after 1945, Chapter: The electoral regulations; in: Dirk Berg-Schlosse and Thomas Noetzel: Parties and elections in Hessen 1946–1994, pages 57–60

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State gazette for the state of Hesse from November 21, 1966, pages 1473 and 1483
  2. ↑ Law amending the Landtag Election Act of July 4, 1966 (GVBl. I, page 143), Section 43, Paragraph 2 of the State Election Code of July 11, 1966 (GVBl. I, page 203)
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, August 29, 1966: Voice in Bed