On March 15, 2020, nearly ten million eligible voters in Bavaria went to the polls for local municipal elections — just days after the WHO had officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. While other German states and many countries postponed elections or switched entirely to mail-in voting, most Bavarians cast their vote in person, as usual. A few weeks later, Bavaria had the highest COVID-19 case and death counts of any German state.
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