Hundreds search for two year old – Kristianstadsbladet

Hundreds search for two year old – Kristianstadsbladet

Text: TT
Published September 13, 2014 7:20 Updated September 13, 2014 7:22
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Gothenburg.

On Sunday evening, we know how the election went. Almost.

In the country’s smaller municipalities are hundreds of advance votes aside for later.

– We do it for fear secrecy, says Anders Andersson, the ECG-cleaner in Ljusnarsberg.

If your neighbor voted early or from abroad that there are enough other votes to count. Otherwise it’s too easy to figure out where the nearest neighbor is, politically. This means that many smaller municipalities choose to save early votes for the Wednesday, when election committees begin to count the early votes not made it to the polling stations on time.

Bjurholm, in the southern part of the county of Västerbotten, Sweden’s smallest municipality in terms to the population. With just over 1,900 voters in the parliamentary elections, the process is a must to ensure the secrecy of the vote.

Advice in manual – Say that we have ten advance votes to be counted on Wednesday. Or just two. Then it might be very easy to find out what someone is voted on, says Per Lindqvist (FP), who is chairman of the election committee of the municipality. – We put aside a significant number, then they disappear here ten voices in the crowd, so to speak. We put aside between 50 and 100 votes in the European elections, it became well 72 I think.

The Election Authority Guide to the municipalities for the election is the Council that “a municipality should have at least 100 advance votes during electoral preliminary head count” on Wednesday. How many early votes that saved a total of Election Authority, however, no statistics on.

Delayed results

In Ljusnarsberg, which on Sunday additionally hold referendums on any name changes to Kopparberg county saved about 100 advance votes. While doing the procedure for the election results on Sunday must be viewed with some reservation, says the ECG machine Anders Andersson.

– Voter privacy is important. But it also means that numbers such as voter turnout may not be entirely fair on Sunday, he said.