WRAP Voting underway in Berlin Hanover vox pops

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(18 Sep 2005) SHOTLIST • • Hanover • 1. Woman entering polling station • 2. Woman receiving voting form • 3. Woman voting • 4. Man casting vote • 5. Woman putting vote into ballot box • 6. Another woman voter filling out ballot form, • 7. Woman voting • 8. Close-up of yellow ballot • 9. Man voter receiving voting form • 10. Various of people voting • • Hanover • 11. Exterior Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's house • 12. Close up Schroeder's house • 13. Security outside Schroeder's house • • Berlin • 14. Exterior Dortheen Street polling station, people arriving to vote • 15. Interior polling station, people registering to vote • 16. Woman taking ballot in polling booth to vote • 17. Man putting vote into ballot box, getting photographed • • Berlin • 18. Media gathered outside polling station • 19. People registering to vote • • Berlin • 20. Woman entering another polling station • 21. Interior polling station, man with officials • 22. Close-up of ballot going into ballot box • 23. SOUNDBITE (German) Peter Pech, voter: • I hope that I can achieve something with my vote. It would be better if everyone was voting. • 24. SOUNDBITE (German) Dagmar Hillebrand, voter: • I always cast my vote, particularly today as it seems to be a close decision. It's very exciting, but I genuinely always go voting. • 25. Man and woman leaving polling station • • Berlin • 26. Pan exterior of Eduard Winter Audi dealership at Kurfürstendamm where people can vote • 27. Audi service sign • 28. Election committee inside dealership • 29. Wahlraum sign: Polling Station • 30. Election committee inside dealership • 31. Man walking in to Peggy's Bistro restaurant to register to vote • 32. Close up of man showing identification card • 33. Man taking voting papers and walking to voting booth • 34. Waitress serving food • 35. Election officials reviewing documents • 36. Man walking over to cast ballot • • STORYLINE • • Germans are voting in a crucial and close election that could see Europe's largest economy change leadership as millions of voters, many of them undecided until the end, headed to the polls. • • Conservative challenger Angela Merkel headed into Sunday's election with a good chance of becoming the country's first female chancellor, but the large number of undecided voters left it unclear whether she could win the convincing mandate she needs to forge ahead with tax and labour market reforms. • • People arrived early to cast their votes at the Dortheen Street polling station in Berlin, where Merkel and the German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, also voted. • • In Hanover, security was increased outside Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's house in preparation for his walk to the polling station. • • If Merkel's Christian Democrats cannot win a majority with her preferred partners - the small, pro-business Free Democrats - the former physicist could be forced to share power in a coalition with Schroeder's Social Democrats. • • The most recent poll, carried out by the Forsa institute between Monday and Friday, put support for the Christian Democrats at between 41 and 43 percent, with the Free Democrats between seven and eight percent, leaving it open as to whether they would win a majority in parliament. • • Schroeder called for the election a year ahead of time in frustration at resistance to his attempts to fix the economy, as unemployment hit record highs in his seven years in power and growth remained sluggish. • • Some voters in Berlin ventured out to a few unusual polling places on Sunday to vote in their country's elections. • • • And hungry voters could have breakfast at Peggy's Bistro while they voted for the next chancellor. • • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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