Invitation to a press conference: “Instead of voting card records: e-voting in the future”

The National Council election is over. Once again, the handling of the election resulted in a huge amount of bureaucratic effort and high costs in the municipal administrations and electoral authorities before and during the election. A major issue for the municipalities is postal voting: with a total of 1,436,240 voting cards issued, there was a new record number of postal voters in the National Council election. This time, 22.6 percent of all eligible voters took advantage of the opportunity to cast their vote early. This shows that people generally want to vote regardless of election day. So why not think intensively about “e-voting”?

Also: How do we create more digitalization in the electoral process and what do communities demand in terms of digitalization? We cordially invite media representatives to the press conference to discuss these and other questions.

Date: Thursday, October 3rd at 10 a.m

Location: Café Landtmann, Landtmann Hall, Universitätsring 4, 1010 Vienna

Your conversation partners are:

• Johannes PresslPresident of the Austrian Association of Municipalities
• Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerlepolitical scientist

We ask you to register at presse@gemeindebund.gv.at

Information about the Austrian Association of Municipalities:

Since 1947, the Austrian Association of Municipalities has represented the local interests of 2,082 of the 2,093 Austrian municipalities and cities at the federal level and thus represents a total of around 70 percent of the Austrian population.

Press discussion: “Instead of voting card records: e-voting in the future”

Datum: October 3, 2024, 10:00 a.m

Art: Pressetermine

Ort: Café Landtmann, Landtmann Hall

University ring 4

1010 Wien

Austria