State election in Saxony: Manipulated poll papers in Dresden declared invalid | EUROtoday

The Dresden district electoral committee has eliminated the greater than 100 manipulated poll papers for the State election declared invalid. However, this had little impact on the ultimate election outcome, stated Dresden's election director Markus Blocher after the committee assembly within the New Town Hall. “The distribution of seats will not change.” Only absolutely the numbers have been corrected.

According to the data, 111 suspicious postal poll papers have been present in all eight Dresden constituencies. Constituency 40 in Langebrück within the north of the state capital was notably affected.

Postal votes for Free Saxony checked

It is regrettable that the votes at the moment are invalid, stated Blocher. However, after consulting with authorized counsel, a majority within the committee noticed no authorized foundation for declaring the unique votes legitimate, he added.

The district electoral committee checked all postal ballots with direct and listing votes for the Free Saxony social gathering. Random samples have been taken of these with a vote for the social gathering.

On Monday after the state election, it grew to become identified that postal ballots had been manipulated in a number of Saxon constituencies. On all manipulated postal ballots, unknown individuals had lined up the cross and as a substitute marked the right-wing extremist micro-party Free Saxony, the police stated. The Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office and the Saxon State Criminal Police Office (LKA) subsequently introduced investigations.