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Does Germany have as many items on a typical ballot. In Washington, DC, we had city council (by ward), city council (at large), non-voting delegate to Congress,
by cafard 6y ago
Does Germany have as many items on a typical ballot. In Washington, DC, we had city council (by ward), city council (at large), non-voting delegate to Congress, shadow representative, shadow senator, a couple of school board slots, advisory neighborhood commissioner, and of course president.
In a state you might have two state legislative seats up, plus some county offices.
- pintxo 6y agoThis was the 2011 city council ballot for Frankfurt am Main: https://chalog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/stimmzettel.jpg https://chalog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/stimmzettel.jpg Every voter had 93 votes, one for each seat in the city council. It's a rather complicated system, where you can freely assign up to 3 votes of your 93 votes to each candidate, can strike candidates from the list or simply vote for party lists. Federal elections are way simpler, with just 2 votes. But often several elections are combined. But there are less elections overall in Germany, as we usually only vote for: city council, county council, state and federal parliaments, and finally EU parliament. 5 in total, most of them every 4 years, so on average 1.2 votings per year.