After receiving the vaccination authorization
200 election workers: inside jump off again
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As an election worker: in you automatically get authorization for a corona vaccination. Practical, apparently thought quite a few people and signed up – only temporarily – as volunteers.
The federal elections are due in September and hard-working election workers are already being sought. Especially in Berlin, where many electoral processes will take place at the same time. In order to minimize the risk of infection with the coronavirus during their work, all volunteers receive a vaccination – even if they would not otherwise have belonged to the priority group. That was probably the best lure for many volunteers. No problem if they had stayed in their office as election workers. But as the “Tagesspiegel” reports, dozens of people in Berlin have now jumped off again – after they had received the vaccination authorization. A rogue who thinks evil.
Almost 200 rejections
In Tempelhof-Schöneberg, according to the district office, 60 election workers jumped out, in Pankow even 130. In Pankow, where significantly more applications than election workers were received than usual, nothing could be said about vaccinations, the connection at most suspected, according to district election officer Christine Ruflett on request of the daily mirror. In Berlin-Tempelhof, on the other hand, it is firmly assumed that there is a connection with the vaccination certificates issued,
There is a risk of a fine of up to 500 euros
The alleged tricking of the system could now have consequences for the volunteers who dropped out. Because without a comprehensible reason you cannot leave your office as an election worker: resign.
“Just processing these rejections costs the electoral office time and energy that is lacking for other tasks. Worse, however, is the risk of unreliable election workers, since every volunteer counts on election day, ”says Tempelhof-Schöneberg’s District Councilor Christiane Heiss. Important reasons for a rejection could, for example, be an illness, a disability or an urgent professional matter. The electoral office in Tempelhof-Schöneberg is now examining the initiation of administrative offense proceedings. Fines of up to 500 euros can be imposed.
By the way: in other parts of Germany the phenomenon of electoral tricksters has not yet been observed. Let’s hope it stays that way!
Sources used: Tagesspiegel.de, Spiegel.de