Bremen – Election glitch with consequences.
Because 1,400 votes disappeared, the Bremen election officer Andreas Cors wants to raise an objection to the result.
The AfD has also announced that it wants to contest the result – but for a different reason: the quarreling party was not allowed to vote because it could not agree on a common electoral list.
Does the election have to be repeated?
Cors on the reasons for his objection: “In four Bremen electoral districts there are differences between the ballot papers counted by the urn election board and the number of ballot papers determined in the respective counting election boards. There are a total of 280 ballot papers that can no longer be found.”
Quite complicated! And that can have an impact on the distribution of mandates in the citizenship.
It is even possible to repeat the entire election. Whether this is the case is now to be decided by an election examination court. Consisting of the president and the vice-president of the administrative court as well as five parliamentarians who are elected in an extra session.
How did the election glitch come about?
In Bremen, the ballot papers are not counted in the polling station on election day in the evening, but are taken to a central counting center. There were fewer slips of paper than indicated, it said from the election management. In each of four polling stations, a box of ballot papers was allegedly destroyed along with unused voting documents.
The winner of the election in the smallest federal state was the SPD (29.8%) ahead of the CDU (26.2%). SPD, Greens (11.9%) and Left (10.9%) want to continue governing together. In the state of Berlin, the 2021 election to the House of Representatives was fraught with so many glitches that it had to be repeated this February.
2023-06-01 17:47:22
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