Rhineland-Palatinate – After the state elections, some people suspect election fraud. The SPD has even made an unpleasant discovery and is thus burdening the CDU. But what does it mean?
Rhineland-Palatinate* and Baden-Wuerttemberg* elect their state parliaments on Sunday (March 14th). The preliminary final results have already been determined in both federal states. But even during the counts, “#voting fraud” is trending on Twitter. Numerous users express their concerns because the AfD has lost more and more votes after the postal vote. However, the allegations are not backed up with evidence and facts, only with Conspiracy myths*. But among all the allegations there is also a presumed scandal in which the SPD makes a serious accusation of the CDU. Reported about it LUDWIGSHAFEN24.de*.
| Name | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Capital | Mainz |
| Residents | 4.085 million (2019) |
| Prime Minister | Malu Dreyer (SPD) |
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State election of Rhineland-Palatinate: SPD accuses CDU of calling for electoral fraud
The SPD Rhineland-Palatinate published a post on Twitter on Sunday. You can see a photographed sheet of paper with unsightly content on it. “When counting votes, please make sure to check the votes of the SPD so that you don’t accidentally get a few ballot papers“, Is written on the piece of paper that is said to have been distributed to the election workers. “Signed“Is the text, which is also about a Zoom election party, by Landtag candidate Sven Koch and CDU Landtag MP Thomas Weiner – but only by machine.
On the basis of this note, the SPD accuses the CDU of calling for election fraud.
© Sceenshot / SPD Rhineland-Palatinate / Twitter
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„The @cdurlp and their MP Thomas Weiner have to explain immediately what that is supposed to be? Is that real? Is this a call for election fraud? Completely wrong!“, Writes the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate. The CDU replied immediately and found the allegations “absurd“And lacking any basis. Then the party takes that both in Rhineland-Palatinate* as well as in Baden-Württemberg has to accept heavy losses*, the election workers in protection who did a decent job.
State election of Rhineland-Palatinate: note scandal – electoral fraud or joke?
In the comments below the post, a bitter discussion about the content of the slip begins. While some of the CDU believe that such a maneuver is possible, others see it as a joke. “I am the last one to protect the CDU but to stylize a flippant slogan in an email to call for election fraud … I would check if you have something long, wooden in your rectum“, Writes a user on Twitter.
The assumption that it is a joke comes from the winking smiley next to the ugly phrase. Some commentators also quarrel with the fact that there is no source for the note. So it could just have been written by someone himself to provoke such a discussion. The incident is reminiscent of the election of the US President in 2020, when Donald Trump spread the myth of electoral fraud – and many of his fans “proofs“Found for the scandal.
State election of Rhineland-Palatinate: Affected politician comments on allegation
In the meantime, the CDU member of the state parliament Thomas Weiner commented on the incident and called him “Nonsense ”. “In any case, we have never produced or even distributed such paper. But where does it come from?“, Asks the 63-year-old on Facebook. He sees in it a “Outrage campaign“Against his party. The content of the note has even been legally checked in the meantime. “Result: The text contained neither the allegation of manipulation nor was it a call for election manipulation. Aha!“, Weiner trims.
Instead, the “Scandal“Now even have an aftermath for the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate – because they simply published the note without obscuring a given telephone number and a zoom link. Neither is exactly in the interest of data protection, as some users also note. The number probably leads to a family who has to endure a telephone terror with up to 150 calls – sometimes with insults “No longer funny for the affected family, however, was a serious failure of neglect of those who started this campaign“, Says Thomas Weiner. However, the CDU MP does not assume that this was the SPD’s goal. (ie) * LUDWIGSHAFEN24.de is an offer from IPPEN MEDIA.
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