Sweden Admits it Has No State Mechanism to Stop Electoral Fraud

Ingrid Carlqvist and Maria Celander have founded a new alternative media site in Sweden, “Ingrid och Maria”. Their latest article concerns the flawed electoral system in Sweden, which drew attention after last weekend’s parliamentary election. Below are some excerpts:

Head of Sweden’s Electoral Authority: “No Control Mechanism to Prevent Voter Fraud”

By Ingrid Carlqvist

The outcome of the Swedish election differed hugely from the many polls the weeks before election day September 9. The polls suggested that the Sweden Democrats would be the largest or second largest party with 25-30 percent of the vote and that the Social Democrats would fall from 31 to 23-24 percent. When the votes were counted Sunday night the Sweden Democrats only got 17,6 while the Social Democrats lost only 2,8 percentage points and got 28,4.

Many Swedes became suspicious — how could the result differ so much from the polls? Several reports on social media reveal suspected electoral fraud and other strange things at the polling stations, such as missing ballots, fake names, Social Democrats who followed people into the voting booth and “helped” them put the “right” ballot papers in the envelopes, men of foreign descent telling their wives how to vote, signs urging people not to seal the envelopes but just fold the flap in, ballot boxes that had not been sealed and rude or even heavily drunk officials at the polling stations. In Southern Sweden, a voter experienced this situation:

“At my polling station two guys were in charge. One of them was pierced all over his face and was so drunk I could smell it a mile away. There were no ballots for Alternative for Sweden, even though I had phoned the day before and was assured they were in place.

The guys were totally disorganized and people were walking around everywhere. And one was as I said heavily drunk. I think if anyone needs to be sober it must surely be the people in charge of organizing an election …”

There can be no corruption in Sweden …

To most Swedes, the idea that the once safe and correct democracy of Sweden could be corrupted is almost impossible to fathom. Everyone understands that mistakes can be made, but they are always blamed on human error — that election fraud could be organized and widespread is dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Because it just cannot be, this is Sweden for God’s sake!

But Sweden is not what it used to be. The Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna (1583—1654) created our famous “civil servant responsibility”, assuming that all government officials “should act in the best interests of the nation and also strive to facilitate the work of other officials” and that was the rule for nearly 400 years. But over the last few decades, the system that served us so well has slowly but surely been phased out. The government officials that once made sure no corruption could occur, have been exchanged for lobbyists and activists, mostly from leftist — and LGBT communities.

Nowadays many government officials/activists refuse to answer questions, and they perceive questions about their agency’s work as personal criticisms. They often demand to get the questions sent via e-mail (which are rarely answered), claiming they cannot answer questions because they are off to an important meeting and then simply just hang up. And when they do answer their phones they are not actually in the workplace, but out doing errands like shopping or picking up children in kindergarten.

No system for identifying electoral fraud

Anna Nyqvist is the Chief Executive of the Electoral Authority. After first trying to get us to call the press secretary, she agrees to answer the important question of how her agency goes about making sure that organized political electoral fraud does not occur.

Does the government have a system for identifying politically initiated electoral fraud?

— No! The answer is no…

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If Swedish politicians really had wanted to safeguard the country’s democracy, they would of course have set up a foolproof system and consolidated this by law. Transferring such an important issue as making the voting system safe against electoral fraud to 290 municipalities and refusing to collect incidents in order to make adjustments, does not indicate a particular concern for safeguarding our democracy.

Read the rest at Ingrid och Maria.

15 thoughts on “Sweden Admits it Has No State Mechanism to Stop Electoral Fraud

  1. Ah. Democracy.

    … and the EU Parliament voted yesterday to censure Hungary for its “declining democratic values”.

    The sound of stomping jackboots grows ever louder and closer!

  2. Already in the run-up to previous elections in Sweden I’ve seen interviews with election helpers employed for the occasion, in which they openly admitted that they would throw away at least part of the ballots for “wrong” parties, and they felt extremely righteous about it. Published for everybody to see and not even that had any consequences. Go figure. I didn’t look too closely this time although I’m in the country now. In private, some are speaking their minds, and many more are making fists in their pockets when they walk. They have one thing going for them, that is a demonstrated capability of radical turnarounds acting as collective, and you don’t get a lot of advance warning when it happens. There is trouble brewing.

  3. I read the other day somewhere that there were separate ballot papers for each party so that you had to effectively declare who you were voting for on entering the building. If that is true, then anything more open to abuse and bullying would seem hard to find.

  4. This is truly shocking. Electoral fraud in Sweden? Not so long ago this would have been unthinkable but the old Sweden is dead.
    It is important that these two brave ladies start a campaign to clean up the electoral system and safeguard it from fraud.

  5. I’ve never heard of “separate voter papers for each party” in a democratic country. The norm is all party candidates listed, perhaps alphabetically with party affiliation next to the name, and a box to tick or cross to identify choice. By separating parties by papers, the potential for political skullduggery is much higher as is intimidation of voters by officials. Perhaps that was the intention all along.
    Sweden is a truly strange repressive country.

  6. Separate ballots for each party that you have to request or stand in a separate line to collect? That is insane. A secret ballot is fundamental to democracy. You can’t even call yourself a democracy without that as far as I am concerned. Sweden is indeed a strange country.

  7. (289) Transferring One Video Into the Style of Another – YouTube

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/

    The anointing oil of the technocrat elite is the slobbering spit that flows from their benighted mouths, a soullessness that pours out on us the huddled masses waiting to be groomed under their awesome tutelage.

    The two above videos make a great case for baseball bats and torches as corrective tools to apply to these techies who are so inspired by another sophist entertainment from the recent past but may provide hints to our own future; Gene Roddenberry’s Trekkies. They went about the galaxy correcting the cretinous and with a smugness that matches the awesomeness of the Mountain View California Six.

    Now the baseball bats are to smash to pieces that AI (artificial intelligence) and the torches are to reduce Mountain View to Forgotten Way. Sweden has been reduced to “I Forgot”. Watch and listen to the two videos our enemy is awesomely plain evil.

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