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“It takes many votes for it to have an impact”

From Svenska Dagbladet · () Swedish

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

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  • A technical error in advance voting may affect up to 4,000 voters across Sweden, whose votes could be invalidated.
  • The error involved some voters being checked off twice or having their votes recorded against another voter.
  • The election would only be annulled and rerun if the affected votes had changed the result, but authorities do not yet know how many votes that would require.

A technical error in Sweden’s advance voting has raised fears that the election could be annulled, but the country’s Election Review Board says that would require the affected votes to have changed the result.

The error came to light after Nynäshamn Municipality informed the Swedish Election Authority. It may affect up to 4,000 voters around the country. Some were checked off twice when voting, while others had their votes recorded against another voter.

How many are required, we do not know.

· Svante O JohanssonThe chair of Sweden’s Election Review Board explains that the threshold for changing the result has not been established.

The votes could therefore be declared invalid. However, Svante O Johansson, chair of the Election Review Board, said the number of affected votes needed to alter the result is not known. The authority described the incident as serious and said it was working with its IT provider, the Swedish Tax Agency, to minimize the consequences for the election result.

The incident is serious, and we are now working together with our IT provider, the Swedish Tax Agency, to minimize the consequences for the election result.

· Anna NyqvistThe Swedish Election Authority’s chief administrative officer describes the response to the advance-voting error.
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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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