Overview

• A power outage began late Saturday night in northern Cottbus, impacting multiple neighborhoods and four polling stations on election day.
• City officials and utility workers identified three causes of the outage, resolving two by afternoon while working to fix the third.
• Warming measures, including blankets and hot beverages, were provided to election workers as heating systems were offline due to the outage.
• Emergency lighting and notepads ensured voting could continue uninterrupted, with no reported impact on the election process.
• By 5:00 PM, the power was restored in affected areas, with heating services partially reestablished earlier in the day.