Finished my mail-in ballot for the #Munich city council election.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

Finished my mail-in ballot for the #Munich city council election. 1 vote for the next mayor. 31 votes for the local council, 80 votes for the city council. In total around 2 square meter of paper. Uffa. Democracy is work. Especially for the brave citizens that will count the votes. You have my biggest respect!

[masoud@aleph.land]

@jwildeboer
Well done Jan! Thank you for your participation. I will do it on the day of elections.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

No digital votes. Paper and pen. Because democracy deserves the paper trail. And I will not discuss that. This is an axiom for me. Democracy needs a paper trail. Counting the votes in public, as we do here, is the ceremony that builds trust. I will be there. To observe and cheer on the people doing the count. They are heroes in my book.

[andibarth@muenchen.social]

@jwildeboer Though there will be a digital count for the BA 19 (half traditional counted, half digital; and only for the mail in votes)

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@AndiBarth Are they counting paper ballots or is there digital voting? You clarified that it is about counting the mail-in votes, so they are scanning the paper ballots, which can be recounted. I am all for digital solutions *after* the vote was on paper, allowing a recount.

[dennmans@waag.social]

@jwildeboer I'd like to be able to vote more incrementally instead of a big-bang every four years.