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The Vienna election on October 11 brought a record number of 382,124 issued voting cards. However, about 13,000 returned voting cards were invalid. The reason was a missing signature on the return envelope.
At 3.5 %, the percentage of unsigned election cards was below the average of previous elections, which had been around 5 %, according to the Viennese electoral authority, which sees the current broad-based information campaign as a success.
13,000 signatures were missing in the gray area on the election card
11,000 missing signatures in National Council election
By way of comparison: In the 2019 National Council elections, for example, around 11,000 election cards were not signed, but with 266,000 election cards, almost 120,000 fewer were issued than in the recent Vienna elections. With the required signature, absentee voters provide an affidavit that they voted personally, unobserved and uninfluenced – and without this, a voting card does not count.
— hp, with reports from orf.at.
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