Germany: How the SPD wants to fight against an alleged voter fatigue ...

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In order to make more people go to the polls, SPD General Secretary Yasmin Fahimi wants to try out a new election procedure. In the daily newspaper Die Welt she spoke out in favor of introducing whole election weeks in preference to a single election day, as they do in Sweden.

In addition, Fahimi suggested that the voters may not only cast their vote at their place of residence, but everywhere. The SPD is currently evaluating whether a "mobile" polling booth is legally possible. It should also be possible that the people no longer only have to vote at normal polling locations, but for instance also at train stations or libraries.

As the motive for her ideas Fahimi quoted: "I do not want to content myself with a turnout of 50 percent." At the beginning of next year, she is going to discuss her proposals with the general secretaries of other parties.

CSU General Secretary Andreas Scheuer rejected Fahimis ideas. "The voters are not as idle and lazy as Fahimis theory says, but smart and very aware of their behavior," he told the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. And Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann added in Die Welt: He has his doubts as to whether an election corridor of one or even several weeks would attract more people to the ballot boxes than usual. Even today, they could easily and unbureaucratically vote by letter.

Also from the point of view of the Greens, the proposals of the SPD general secretary are not the answer to everything." A boring movie will not get better if you air it longer", said the domestic policy spokesman Volker Beck. "Policy must become more distinguishable again. And as to that we all have to look who's talking."

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The only thing Germany (and other countries who are struggling with falling turnout) can do is to encourage people from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries to immigrate to Germany and reproduce fast.

Scandinavian people have high turnout in their genes ...

Or they ought to reconsider what they gonna say.
("We are always being measured against our campaign promises. That's unfair.")

Or they oughtn't modify mathematical laws of nature.
(0 + 2 = 3)