Nobody finds it odd that they are handing out pencils when we have ALWAYS voted in black pen only I can't even, I told the lady I brought my own PEN and i think she giggled under her mask.
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The place I go to vote used to always have 2 pens on a string at each booth but now there's a maskie at the entrance with a big box of IKEA pencils that you either have to dispose of after or keep lmao
Kek, never heard the COVID excuse.
They have used pencils for as long as I can remember. Nobody ever questions it and I point it out every time I wait in line.
Brought my own pen.
It's fucking insane.
What I thought was even funnier was they asked for the pencil back when you walked out the door. Said brought my own pen mate. I spent 6 and half hours handing out how to vote cards for one of our freedom parties at a country polling station.
So my only question is… Did you go buy a bunch of pens and hand them out to people that were voting? Or did you just go home defeated. This happened once before somewhere, and I encouraged the guy to go buy a bunch of pens, And go back to that voting station, and make a difference. He did just that.
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Always been pencils here. Definitely by pen
Yep, I voted but took a pen.
Same here in Germany we had always blue or black pens. Now they gave me a pencil and told me it is according the requirements - they laughed as well at me.
I then took a blue pen to vote and later looked it up: Yes, it is now legal to use pencils to vote.
Also: Since last year they don't want to see my ID anymore, they only need my name and cross me off a list. This also seems to be normal and legal in the new normal.
Never thought that Germany would go so low in legal standards.
(see also the ruling of our corrupt Supreme Court = Yes, mandatory vaccination for the health care sector is o.k., because they could leave and choose a different job opportunity!)
This is what started happening here in the US at least 15 years ago. They stopped asking for ID and only asked for your name and address and they just crossed it off of their list. Looks like you guys are unfortunately going the corrupt way as the US. We all know how our election turned out.
I don't know how long this is already going on, because due to very stressful years since 2013 and moving to another state, I missed one federal election and one on state level. Therefore my surprise.
Probably everything started to go down with the first inauguration of Angela Merkel. Most of the Germans, including me, did not realized her evil goals until it was too late and her socialistic infiltrators had taken so many levels of politics, parties, administration, education and media. Now we are living in GDR 2.0 !