{"id":178881,"date":"2026-09-23T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=178881"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:59:18","slug":"121-roster-bortslarvade-kan-kasta-om-valet-i-simrishamn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/121-voters-who-failed-to-vote-could-swing-the-election-in-simrishamn\/","title":{"rendered":"121 votes cast in error\u2014could overturn the election in Simrishamn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Yet another serious error has been discovered following the 2026 election. In Simrishamn, 121 early votes were never counted\u2014and the error may have affected the distribution of seats on the municipal council.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sealed box containing early votes was left on the wrong shelf when the final tally was conducted after the election. Of the 121 votes, 117 were deemed valid, but by the time the box was discovered, it was too late for the county administrative board to include them in the final tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201dExtremely serious\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jesper Jacobsson<\/strong>, chief legal counsel and election officer at the Sk\u00e5ne County Administrative Board, believes the error is likely to have no impact on the parliamentary and regional elections. The municipal election is a different matter, since a relatively small number of votes can affect the distribution of seats in Simrishamn, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ystadsallehanda.se\/simrishamn\/121-roster-i-simrishamn-sjabblades-bort-kan-ha-avgjort-valet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ystads Allehanda<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 <em>I think this is a very serious matter. It\u2019s always serious when voters\u2019 ballots aren\u2019t properly counted in an election, so this is obviously a huge problem,<\/em> says Jacobsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Only 10\u201315 votes separated them<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election race illustrates just how close the outcome is. According to the chair of the election board <strong>Matts Karlsson<\/strong> (M) noted that only 10\u201315 votes separated the candidates when a seat changed hands, and he warns that the 121 missed votes could alter the balance of power in the city council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 <em>This number of votes could completely reshuffle the distribution of seats in the municipality,<\/em> says Karlsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A re-election may be on the horizon<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This incident comes at a time when the election process elsewhere is under scrutiny due to allegations of election fraud. In Simrishamn, however, there is no information in the sources indicating intentional fraud\u2014the municipality describes the incident as a human error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether the error leads to a re-election is not decided by the municipality. According to Jacobsson, that decision rests with the Election Review Board.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>121 votes were missed in Simrishamn\u2014and only a handful of votes separated one seat. Now the Election Review Board may have the final say<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":178886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1522,205],"tags":[2090,6340],"class_list":["post-178881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-mellan","category-nyheter","tag-skane","tag-valet-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178881","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=178881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}