{"id":179264,"date":"2026-09-29T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=179264"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:51:07","slug":"over-100-larm-om-fortidsroster-postnord-kallas-till-mote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/over-100-complaints-about-postnords-outdated-roster-lead-to-a-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 reports of early voting issues \u2014 Postnord is called to a meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Early votes arrived at the wrong locations, unsorted, and in some cases hours late. After more than 100 reports of transportation problems from 53 municipalities, the Election Authority called Postnord to a meeting to find out what had gone wrong.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problems arose when early votes were being transported to the correct polling places. In some cases, votes were delivered to the wrong location, while other deliveries were significantly delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to [...], all votes affected by the transportation problems have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sverigesradio.se\/artikel\/valmyndigheten-granskar-postnord-efter-valstrul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ekot <\/a><\/strong>The issues have been resolved, and it is not believed that they affected the election results. However, the municipalities\u2019 election offices have since sought answers as to how the problems could have arisen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Postnord: Volumes Too High<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Postnord has pointed out that there were significantly more early votes than the company had anticipated. The problems included, among other things, votes that were misdirected, arrived up to ten hours late, or arrived unsorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping, election office staff had to get into cars themselves and drive around to deliver hundreds of misdelivered ballots on Election Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Municipalities Demand Answers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recurring problem has been communication from Postnord. Several municipalities stated after the election that they still had not received any explanation of what had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Election Administrator <strong>Joel Kristofersson<\/strong> in Sundbyberg describes how stressful the situation became for campaign workers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 <em>We heard that on election night, too\u2014that people felt, \u201dThis was tough, and I might not do this again.\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the Election Authority wants to determine what went wrong. Postnord was therefore summoned to a meeting following the numerous reports from the municipalities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 problems with early votes have been reported. Postnord has now been summoned to a meeting\u2014following reports of votes that were misdelivered or arrived late<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":98460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1523,205],"tags":[1151,2243],"class_list":["post-179264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-liten","category-nyheter","tag-fortidsrosta","tag-postnord"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179264","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=179264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}