No paperwork that takes you a few minutes to fully unfold, but a small and compact ballot paper. Residents of the municipality of Tynaarlo can look forward to these new ballot papers during the European Elections on June 6.
Tynaarlo is one of five municipalities in the Netherlands that have been selected for an experiment with a smaller ballot paper. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), the current ballot paper is too large and difficult to use for both voters and polling station members.
According to the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the new model is easier to handle, better used for blind and visually impaired voters, easier to count and suitable for electronic counting in the future.
All voters in the municipality of Tynaarlo can therefore cast a vote in the upcoming elections using the adapted ballots. First, a box is colored in for the party on the top half of the ballot paper and you then tick a candidate on the bottom half.
Residents of the municipality of Tynaarlo can practice completing the new ballot paper in the coming months. Special voting booths will be set up at various locations in the municipality for this purpose.