🇩🇪 Suspected election fraud: Who voted in place of a 95-year-old woman with dementia?

Three days before the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, police are investigating an extremely unpleasant matter at a care home in Dessau, the Marthahaus. As the Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung discovered, the nephew and authorized representative of a 95-year-old woman who has been suffering from dementia for about four years wanted to clarify what had happened to her ballot papers. An employee of the facility told him that the residents’ ballots had been collected and destroyed due to a lack of time. However, the electoral office revealed something else: As early as August 10, postal voting documents had been requested in the woman’s name—and her vote had already been cast. It is not yet known exactly who requested the documents and filled out the ballot.

The story has long since gone beyond the care home’s walls. The nephew filed a criminal complaint, the investigation was handed over to the State Security Department, and the state election commission is examining possible consequences. So far, however, it has not been established which party the disputed vote was cast for. The AfD and BSW are calling for clarification of how well the postal voting system is protected against such manipulation. The SPD and FDP, on the other hand, warn against extending the suspicion to the entire system. Interesting, why? 🤔.

However, if something like this is possible with a helpless voter, the logical question arises: How many such votes were simply not checked?


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