PhotoBERLIN — A repeat of Austria’s presidential election should be postponed because of faulty postal ballots, the country’s interior minister announced on Monday in Vienna. The minister, Wolfgang Sobotka, said that pushing back a rerun of the May presidential runoff, originally scheduled for Oct. 2, to late November or early December would require the approval of Parliament. Mr. Sobotka said investigations had revealed that several hundred ballots had been sent out and used, even though tests showed that adhesive flaps could be opened after being sealed. In the end, Mr. Hofer narrowly lost the May 22 runoff, by 31,000 votes. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe latest glitch in the presidential election “has already made Austria an international laughingstock,” the liberal daily Der Standard wrote on Monday before Mr. Sobotka’s announcement.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2016 10:44 UTC