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When is a ballot paper invalid? You need to know

  • Oct 26, 2025
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If your ballot paper in the Bavaria election is invalid, is not counted their votes. To prevent this from happening, we have summarized all the important factors here.

Ballots for the final election invalid?

Actually, you can't do that while Filling out the ballot too much wrong with it. You have exactly two votes, a first vote and a second votefor the state election to give may.

  • Two voices, two crosses, which you must place on the ballot at the designated locations means. This means, you may put a cross in the left-hand column of the ballot with a cross in the right column.
  • Enter the First and/or second voice, more than a cross, the ballot paper invalid.
  • More than two crosses are not allowed to make, less but. You want to make, for example, only your first vote for the mandate, are allowed to do that.
  • Furthermore, you need to put the cross as precisely as possible in the space provided. It must be clearly identifiable, where the cross belongs. Place your cross so unfavourable, that it is not clearly one or the other candidate or a party, be attributed to the can, the ballot is also invalid.
  • Additional comments on the ballot are also undesirable and result in your ballot paper being declared invalid.
Ballot paper is invalid [photo by pixabay]

Only a few know: an invalid ballot because of the photo

You love to post in Facebook & co., you should not do in the election:

  • Take a picture of the ballot paper in the polling station, can be explained your ballot invalid. Because in order for you to break your secrecy of voting and is not allowed. More on this, see the article "Selfie in the polling booth".
  • You take in the absentee ballot part and post the completed ballot papers, for example, in the case of Facebook, declared the ballot to be invalid. This was, for example, the Ex-the interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein Andreas Breitner of the case.
  • You don't go in your own constituency to the state election, you cannot cast the first vote. Only the second voice counts in this case.
  • You have your choice of documents lost, you may of course still choose when you sign up with an identity card legitimate can.
  • You want to cast via absentee ballot, your vote for the state election in Bavaria, is on the ballot paper invalid if he was not sent in the official ballot envelope.
When is a ballot paper invalid, the you have to

You have the documents for the absentee ballot is not yet applied, you should now hurry up to the specified deadlines.

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