Hundreds of instances of duplicate mail-in ballots had already been detected before the election in Saxony-Anhalt. When the votes were counted, the AfD received 51.2 percent of the vote at the polling places—but only 24.3 percent among mail-in voters. Now, questions about the integrity of the vote are mounting.
The AfD won the election with 43.8 percent of the vote and 39 of the state parliament’s 83 seats. But among those who voted in person, the party received as much as 51.2 percent. Without the absentee ballots, the AfD would have mathematically secured a majority on its own, according to WELT.
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