Elections are organized by the competent authority and announced in accordance with the applicable regulations. You can cast your vote in person in the polling station assigned to you on election day using the polling card sent to you.

If you wish to vote by postal ballot, you must apply for a polling card. Another person can submit the application on your behalf or receive your documents if you authorize them in writing. You submit the application to the office indicated on the polling card.

You can have a say by voting.

They say: "You cast your vote."


This is how you can vote:
Anyone who is allowed to vote receives a letter.
The letter has a name: this is the election notification.
If you don't receive a letter, you can ask.
You can go to the town hall or district hall and ask.
Or you can ask your supervisor.
The letter tells you where to go to vote.
You take the letter with you.
You can also take your ID with you.
There are people there who will explain everything to you.

You get a piece of paper with a list:
There are names of people on the list.
These people can be elected.

Names of people who want to be elected to the Bundestag.
This is the ballot paper.
You put a cross next to the person you like.
Then you put the ballot paper in a box.

The state parliament in Lower Saxony has decided:
People who have a carer are also allowed to vote.
People in a special hospital are also allowed to vote.
The difficult word for this is psychiatry.