The time has almost come, next Wednesday we will be back in the voting booth for elections for the fourth year in a row. This time we are voting for a new structure for the House of Representatives. Are you ready for a different polling station than you are used to? You can vote at these five special places in Drenthe this year.
To cast a vote in your own municipality, use the voting card that was delivered by post in recent weeks. To move to another municipality, a voter’s pass must be applied for. This can be done in two ways: you can apply for a voter’s card at the counter of your own municipality until 12 noon next Tuesday. It is also possible until Friday, October 24, to request a voter’s card using a form, which can be found on the municipality’s website.
The most striking place is the Camp Westerbork memorial center, which was once used as a voting location. Entrance to the museum is also free on this day. “Especially in times when democracy and the rule of law are under increasing pressure in many places in the world, it is extra important to protect this. By setting up the Remembrance Center as a polling station, we are trying to make a symbolic contribution to this,” says museum director Bertien Minco.
All voters receive a special red pencil with a quote from Anne Frank: ‘How wonderful it is that no one has to wait a minute before changing the world.’ She spent three weeks in Westerbork camp in 1944 before she and her family were deported to Auschwitz. The Remembrance Center and Museum are open from 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM on election day.
To obtain an accurate ‘Exit Poll’ on election night, research agency IPSOS is at 65 voting locations throughout the Netherlands. They ask voters at those locations to also cast their votes anonymously, with which a provisional result will be presented at the beginning of the evening.
The voting location of the NNCZ Krakeel residential care center in Hoogeveen serves as one of the places where IPSOS employees keep track of the votes cast during these elections. So would you like to participate in this research? Then go vote in the residential care center in Hoogeveen.
Not only the voting location can be very special, the method of voting is also not the same in every municipality. After a successful experiment during the European elections last year, there are also smaller ballot papers in the municipality of Tynaarlo during these elections.
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