You get a pittance here too. Far from enough to make me wake up early on a Sunday, go there and take part in that farce even if it lasted just one hour, not even close, much less staying there the whole fucking day, then counting the fucking ballots, and counting them again, and again… copying the results by hand more than a dozen times—one for each of the parties’ observer (? Not sure this is the name. Specially one of them was an absolute asshole), and then taking them to the district council in my own fucking car.
In Germany, it’s usually volunteers, but you may also be drafted in case there is a shortage. However, you get some Euros “refreshment allowance”.
You get a pittance here too. Far from enough to make me wake up early on a Sunday, go there and take part in that farce even if it lasted just one hour, not even close, much less staying there the whole fucking day, then counting the fucking ballots, and counting them again, and again… copying the results by hand more than a dozen times—one for each of the parties’ observer (? Not sure this is the name. Specially one of them was an absolute asshole), and then taking them to the district council in my own fucking car.