Elections, danish style

In the serie "let's live fully the Danish life", we have just tried "the vote". Lucky us, we were entitled to two votes for one trip: the municipal and regional.



Since it is the local elections, foreigners - including ourselves - have the right to vote (as opposed to parliament two years ago for example).
Even if the grund principles are the same as in France (sorry I can only compare to what I know about), there are still some significant differences in the proceeds.
Firstly, we were not ask for ID. On arrival at the polling station, a volunteer scans the barcode on your valgkort (received by post one week before) and verifies its validity on a PC. And voila, you're done! The valgkort is a disposable piece of paper, no, no, no need to reach out to retrieve it - Oh, those silly foreigners ...
Then the volunteer gives you two lists (one for each vote), which I must say are quite bulky ... It is a big change from the myriad of small papers we get in France (one for each list)


Then comes the traditional trip to the voting booth. Well, where am I going to put my cross (pencil provided)?
Here you can vote both for a party or a person. Following the compting, if one party realizes that his member number 12 get more "personal" vote as member 10, they would probably re-organize the list. Once your choice is written down, don't search for an envelope, here they pay attention to the environment! But apparently no to the confidentiality!
Exit the booth by the opposite side, no, no, not that way, ohhh these foreigners, they don't understand a thing ...
Then you try to insert your ballot in a large plastic trash. Pardon, a ballot box - which is shaped like a large plastic trash.

Note the old style wooden racket leaning against the urn: here no "Has voted" stamp, instead you get a big slap in the ***. No, I am kidding, actually it meant to be used to stuff the ballots in the ballot box when they get stuck (and they do!). I dare not imagine how the ballots look like when they are retrieved from the bint!
Finally, here is yet another cultural experience!