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SECUS
Electoral Procedure/
Electoral procedures in Germany are those established by the
respective Land governments in accordance with the directives of
the zone commanders. There has been no quadripartite agreement on
electoral prosedure nor on suparvision of elections. Only in the
S. TRUNAR
ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND
municipal olection of Berlin, Ostober 20, 1946, has there been
SERVICE"
quadripartite supervision of a German election. The tactics eme
ployed in the Soviet zone by the dominant SED have been such as to
deny equal privileges to all parties in the Land elections, although
those relate rather to the preparatory measures than to the conduct
of the elections themselves.
At Moscow, the US, UK and France agreed that the CC should
ensure quadripartite supervision and inspection of elections through
out Germany as a whole; the USSR proposed that such supervision and
inspection should apply only to elections for an all-German parlia-
ment. In further discussion in the ACA (Internal Affairs and Com-
munications Directorate) the Soviet mamber blocked agresment upon
the stablishment of a commission for the supervision and inspec-
tion of elections by insisting that its function apply only to
elections for "the Central German Parliement".
There was general agreement at Moscow that the CC should
"ensure that elections throughout Germany as a whole are carried
out on the democratic principles of universal, equal and direct
suffrage and the secret ballot"; the USSR insisted also upon a
system of proportional representation. Subsequently the matter
was discussed in the ACA (Internal Affaire and Communications
Directorate)
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