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Human error caused advance-voting registration problems

From Svenska Dagbladet · () Swedish

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  • The Swedish Election Authority said incorrectly registered advance votes resulted from officials mishandling a new system.
  • The authority initially feared about 4,000 voters were affected, but estimated on Monday that the number had fallen to no more than 500.
  • Election Authority chief of staff Anna Nyqvist said officials hoped to reduce the figure further.

Human error caused the problems with incorrectly registered advance votes, according to Sweden’s Election Authority. Officials had mishandled the new system, the authority said.

The authority initially feared that about 4,000 voters across the country had been affected by last week’s voting problems. By Monday, that estimate had fallen to no more than 500.

It was human error.

· Anna NyqvistThe Swedish Election Authority’s chief of staff explained the incorrectly registered advance votes.

“We hope it will go down further. We are working hard on it,” said Anna Nyqvist, chief of staff at the Swedish Election Authority.

We hope it will go down further. We are working hard on it.

· Anna NyqvistNyqvist described efforts to reduce the number of affected voters.
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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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