Three Odd Stories

 1.  Focus ran a piece this AM and talked about the 15-odd-million E-cars that Germany anticipates will be built over the next seven years, and how interest has kinda hit some peak.

Yeah, in some way....there's a suggestion that unless the gov't figures out some gimmick (like lower sales taxes)...there's going to be a lot of E-cars sitting on 'for sale' lots.

2.  RBB (public TV  from Berlin) talks this AM about a fair amount of 'invented' Covid test results (from the 2020 to 2022 era)....where corruption existed in the city Covid tests.

Where did the profits from the invented results flow to?  Well....Turkey. 

In one case alone, they've tracked down the guy responsible and figure he moved around 10-million Euro from fake Covid testing.

More out there?  Probably, but it'll take a massive amount of investigation, and I'd doubt that they ever get the money back.

3.  What's this talk of a Berlin City repeat on the 2021 federal election?

Well....in a nutshell, the city of Berlin ran a pretty crappy 2021 city and federal election.  Lawsuits came up and the city was eventually forced to repeat the city election (different results this time around).

So the Constitutional Court is being dragged into another lawsuit.  The deal.....if the court said that the city election was 'fu**ed-up'.....then logic would hold that the national election held in the city was also 'fu**ed-up'.

Opening a can of worms?  OH YEAH.

If the court did say another federal election had to occur....2 years after the 2021 election?  I'd suggest that the results at this point would be a shift from Green Party and SPD votes.....to CDU and AfD votes.  

How eager would the court be?  I'm guessing that almost all of them would like to find a logical way to avoid another election attempt.

How did the 2021 national election in Berlin get so screwed up?  

I'd go to two  central issues.  A major marathon was held on this Sunday election day....disrupting traffic to a great degree.  Second issue....the polling volunteers who signed up to get a higher priority for the Covid vax deal....didn't show up....so they were missing a fair number of poll 'helpers'.