Well....in the mayoral election in Strausberg, a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the primary voting issue revolves around highly suspected electoral manipulation due to the disappearance of over 1,100 postal voting documents.
The first round of voting occurred on 15 Feb....and the commission running things....declared it invalid because of these irregularities.
Facts? More or less....some 4,000-plus postal ballot letters were distributed. As the count started up....only 2,835 were returned to the electoral authority, marking an unusually high non-return rate of about 30 (average is usually 10-percent).
I should add here....you only get a postal ballot...IF YOU REQUEST IT.
Leading candidate? Patrick Hübner, who received 22.5-percent of the votes overall and 30-percent of postal votes (compared to up to 21-percent for others). This guy owns a coffee roasting business that just happens to double as the village post office.
Yeah....this postal connection is a problem.
He was set to face non-party candidate Annette Binder (21.2-percent) in a run-off on March 15, but the irregularities centered on his handling of postal documents.
Hübner reportedly documented the declining ballot letters himself instead of using Deutsche Post's neutral process, prompting further scrutiny.
Criminal complaint? Yeah....for electoral fraud.
Looking over matters....there's going to be a evidence problem. But I suspect the commission will just say....vote again....with the mail-in ballots going to another postal system.
Kinda funny....if they find evidence....the guy might be looking at a year in prison.
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