2025年6月25日、オーストリアの村で、9対9で否決された自転車道の看板費用が、あとから配られた議事録では10対9の可決に変わっていた。25 June 2025 — In an Austrian village, a bike-path signage cost that had been rejected nine votes to nine appeared, in the minutes circulated afterwards, as carried ten to nine.

In the village of Persenbeug-Gottsdorf, in Lower Austria, a motion put to the village council on the evening of 25 June 2025 came to differ between the vote and the minutes. The state's public broadcaster reported it on 20 August 2025.

The motion, brought by the mayor, Gerhard Leeb (Social Democratic Party), was that the village contribute 1,100 euros a year, from 2026 to 2028, toward signage and other works on the Danube cycle path (the Donauradweg). The works as a whole are planned by a subsidiary of the provincial government at a total of 750,000 euros.

Nineteen councillors were present. The vote came out nine in favour and nine against — a tie — and the motion was rejected, one member each from the governing Social Democrats and People's Party having voted against.

But the minutes circulated to the parties in July said "the motion was carried," with the count given as ten in favour and nine against. The village explained that, on re-checking the papers while drawing up the minutes, it had found that a majority of those present had in fact been in favour. With nineteen present and a nine-to-nine split, one vote was unaccounted for; after consulting the mayor, that vote was counted as a yes, making it ten to nine.

The three opposition groups — Michael Astleitner of NEOS, Julian Olle of the Freedom Party, and Christa Kranzl of the Citizens' List — say that vote was an abstention. Under the provincial local-government law, an abstention counts as a no, and a tie means rejection. The three called the handling "questionable in democratic terms," and NEOS and the Citizens' List lodged objections. The village said it could not confirm that there had been an abstention, and that final approval of the minutes would be decided at the next council meeting, set for September.