{"id":177854,"date":"2026-09-10T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=177854"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:31:33","slug":"valsedlar-forsvinner-sd-kd-och-m-drabbade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/ballots-disappear-sd-kd-and-m-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballots Go Missing \u2013 SD, KD, and M Affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ballots for the SD and M parties have repeatedly gone missing during early voting in Sandviken. The KD party is also reported to have been affected\u2014at the same time, more than 2,000 incident reports have been submitted to the Election Authority from across the country.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ballots for the Moderate Party are said to have been missing on three occasions at Sandviken City Hall. The municipality\u2019s election coordinator, Tommie Flor\u00e9us, also confirms that ballots for the Sweden Democrats have gone missing on a few occasions, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arbetarbladet.se\/sandviken\/valsedlar-stals-fran-bas-skapar-en-oro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arbetarbladet<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SD's Opposition Council <strong>Per Kihlgren<\/strong> takes the events seriously. He suspects that someone may be acting deliberately, but at the same time emphasizes that he has no evidence to support that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 It feels like it's intentional, but I have no evidence to support that<\/em>, he tells <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/riks.se\/nyheter\/valsedlar-forsvinner-i-sandviken-kanns-som-att-det-ar-medvetet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riks<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Confidence in the election is at stake<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local Chair of the Moderate Party <strong>Emma Karlsson <\/strong>She was alerted by a voter who wanted to vote for the party but discovered that the ballots were missing. She then contacted the municipality's election coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 It\u2019s causing some concern. I mean, there shouldn\u2019t be any doubt that the rules are the same for all parties and voters. It undermines confidence in the voting process.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem extends beyond Sandviken. As of September 8, 224 municipalities had reported incidents to the Election Authority. The reports include, among other things, ballot papers that were removed or moved and attempts to influence voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Demands for safer systems are growing<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On X, the incident has sparked calls for stricter oversight. One user writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dThe Swedish electoral system is completely outdated and invites fraud.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frihetsnytt has previously reported on similar concerns, which have affected, among others, the Malm\u00f6 List and the Civic Coalition, as well as calls for a unified ballot. Such a system could reduce the possibility of sabotaging a party\u2019s participation by simply removing its ballots.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballots for the SD and M are going missing. Concerns are now growing about election security and whether this is an organized effort\u2014at the same time, more and more people are calling for a more secure system<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":171666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1522,205],"tags":[161,160,156,409,6534],"class_list":["post-177854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-mellan","category-nyheter","tag-kristdemokraterna","tag-moderaterna","tag-sverigedemokraterna","tag-valfusk","tag-valsedel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}