Voting booth

The voting booth or voting booth is a non-accessible for third parties room or crate that will allow a secret ballot. Therefore, they must each be entered only by one person, what in Austria, the Commission of the election Sprengel, in Germany, the Election Committee has to watch.

Voters can on a desk the ballot mark unobserved, fold and put in an envelope before him outside the voting booth, after checking their eligibility to vote by the electoral board, stuck in the ballot box. A marking of ballots outside the polling booth, except for absentee voting not allowed.

Often the polling stations, if they are responsible for several hundred voters, more than one polling booth. In addition to a laid-out in the voting booth (if possible indelible ) writing instrument can be posted in the voting booth and the nomination with the / the candidates or party lists. Other communications, especially for election advertising, are not admitted.

If a voter is disabled, a companion of his choice can help, including the finer details are set out in the Electoral Code.