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Answers on Voting System Failure Expected Next Week

From Svenska Dagbladet · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Sweden’s election authority said an ongoing analysis may provide more answers early next week after a technical error affected advance-vote records.
  • About 4,000 of 1.7 million advance votes may have been checked twice or recorded against another voter, although the authority said the number could be significantly lower.
  • Officials said they cannot determine which elections or parties may have been affected because ballot papers remain intact and individual votes cannot be traced.

Sweden’s election authority expects to know more next week about a technical failure that may leave thousands of advance votes invalid.

About 4,000 of the 1.7 million advance votes recorded so far may have been checked twice or checked against the wrong voter. The authority stressed that the figure could be considerably lower and said it is still analyzing which municipalities were affected.

Hopefully we will know more at the beginning of next week.

· Jany PlevnikThe Swedish Election Authority press secretary described the expected timing of the analysis.

A digital question-and-answer session for the parliamentary parties’ secretaries will take place on Monday. Election Authority press secretary Jany Plevnik said the meeting would allow the parties to receive information about what happened and ask how the authority plans to proceed.

It may be considerably fewer, but we do not really know that yet.

· Jany PlevnikShe qualified the initial estimate of 4,000 potentially affected advance votes.

The problem came to light after the authority received information from Nynäshamn municipality on Tuesday afternoon. Officials are still mapping the consequences and cannot yet say whether the missing votes could change the election outcome.

Plevnik said the authority cannot identify whether municipal, regional or parliamentary elections were affected. Nor can it determine which parties might have been hit harder, because the ballot papers themselves remain intact and officials cannot examine how individual people voted. The authority hopes to provide a fuller update at the beginning of next week.

It is impossible to say.

· Jany PlevnikShe responded when asked whether specific parties could be more affected than others.
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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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