Allegations of Election Fraud from Järva: ”Clan Voting, Election Manipulation, and Election Fraud”

Pre-marked ballots, voters receiving instructions, and people trying to follow others behind the voting screen. Following allegations of election fraud in Borlänge, there are now reports of serious problems during early voting in Järva as well.

Svenska Dagbladetthe newspaper's editorial writer Peter Wennblad states that he has interviewed several experienced election officials who have worked in Rinkeby, Tensta, and Husby. Their accounts pertain to a series of incidents that occurred during early voting, some of which, according to Wennblad, are also documented in incident reports.

Pre-marked ballots were found

The reports include voters who received instructions, people who tried to follow others behind the voting screen, and pre-marked ballots that were placed among the other ballots. According to Wennblad, the latter cases most often involved the Left Party and candidate number eight, Ilyas Hassan.

Hassan is a member of the Left Party’s executive committee and is from Husby. He ran an extensive personal campaign in Järva and ultimately received nearly 8,300 personal votes—the second-highest number among the Left Party’s candidates, behind party leader Nooshi Dadgostar.

Didn't speak Swedish—but knew ”number eight”

One of the most remarkable accounts concerns early voting in Rinkeby. Wennblad describes a situation in which, according to his sources, many voters neither spoke Swedish nor knew how the voting process worked—yet had still been given a specific candidate number.

”3. At the end of August, there is a constant stream of early voters in Rinkeby. Many don’t speak Swedish at all and have no idea how to navigate a polling place or what to vote for. But they know one thing, they’ve been given one task, and they can say one phrase: ’Number eight.’”

This report is particularly noteworthy in light of other testimonies regarding V ballots that had been pre-marked with a check mark next to candidate number eight, as well as voters who allegedly received instructions via cell phone.

Election Commission: The campaign ”got out of hand”

According to SvD, Eva Debels, chief of staff at the Stockholm Election Board, says that Järva stands out among the reports and concerns regarding early voting. Hassan's personal election campaign ”got out of hand”, according to Debels, who repeatedly contacted the Left Party’s secretariat and demanded that the party take action.

Several respondents use much harsher language to describe their experiences. One of them sums it up:

– Clan voting, election interference, and election fraud on a scale I've never seen before.