Concerns about missing ballots are growing. Following the Malmö List’s discoveries at several polling places, the Civic Coalition now reports that their ballots have also been removed. In Järfälla, the same issue is said to have been discovered at several early voting locations on Thursday.
Freedom News previously reported on how Malmölistan's ballots had disappeared shortly after they were delivered. Party leader Nils Littorin said It later became clear that the problems were not limited to a single polling place.
In Rosengård was missing The party's ballots in three out of four voting booths. The Malmö List fears that these problems may continue throughout the election campaign and has urged voters to check the ballot boxes and raise the alarm if ballots are missing.
Now, similar reports are coming from the Civic Coalition.
MED: Taking place at several polling places
The party's vice chair Mikael Flink states in a post on X that reports of problems have come in from various parts of the country. In Järfälla, the party goes further and describes the situation as organized and systematic.
”The photo shows an early voting site in Järfälla Municipality where someone has deliberately removed the Civic Coalition’s ballots for the municipal and regional elections. Exactly the same action has been observed at several different early voting locations in Järfälla Municipality throughout the day today.”
MED also states that an election official at another polling place refused to accept the party’s ballots because the party ”was not on her list.” The party also describes disorder and inconsistencies in how ballots were handled at different polling places.
The Järfälla Civic Coalition has now called for a special meeting with the Election Board.
Calls for a new electoral system
MED wants to solve these problems by having Sweden abandon the system of separate ballots and introduce a single ballot for all parties. The party representative Lena Malmberg points to systems similar to those in Denmark and Finland, among other countries.
”In one fell swoop, we would eliminate the problems of fraud and sabotage in our elections if we had a voting system with a single ballot similar to those in Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, or the Netherlands.”
Consequently, reports are now coming in from both Malmölistan and Medborgerlig Samling that ballots for smaller parties were missing at several polling places.
It has not yet been determined who removed the ballots in the cases where MED suspects sabotage. But the party does not intend to wait for the next incident—the matter has now been brought directly to the attention of the Election Commission.
Today I was at the polling place in my municipality, where there were ballots. The Örebro Party, Ambition Sweden, and Alternative for Sweden. That’s enough for me.
Here in Palmestaden, they had ALL the ballots. :-)