Message from @zero_consequences
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You pick out the ballots you want from a stand that everyone can see. You pick three ballots. National, regional and local. On each ballot there is a list of people where you can check one box for an individual that you really want seated if the party doesn't get enough votes to seat all people. If you don't have a ballot for the party you are voting for there are blank ballots where you can write down the name of the party you want.
You put each ballot into a letter that has a hole in it so you can see which type of vote you are making. Three closed letters with holes with three different colors. Those are placed in a bigger envelope. You bring those to a table where you verify your identity and then they check you off a list and place your envelope in a box with a hole in it.
Sweden has gotten international critique because of how easy it is to see who you are going to vote for.
Yeah that's a really screwed up system. Way too easy to shame and intimidate voters.
What's generally being claimed here is that ballots were not on the stand meaning that you had to write on a blank ballot where you need to remember who you want to individually support. If you don't choose a person then anyone in the party could get the seat. Then the claim is that ballots for one party got counted as another or where wrongly claimed as being invalid. Like mispelling the party name enough so that the counter "cannot tell" which party it's meant for...
We had a record amount of "invalid" ballots this year. However that could be due to people being pissed at the politicians and writing shit like "Donald Duck" on the ballot.
We also had "family voting" where immigrant families or communities would be handed ballots by their family/klan-leader and then be observed by that leader while they walk behind the screen and place their ballots in the letter.
In Rinkeby (Immigrant heavy area) 77% voted for the social democrats.
(correction: The family/klan-leader stands on the other side of the screen but observes them walking there with the ballots he handed them)
I thought Sweden was the Hallmark of democracy not Russia-lite voting scheme.
It was the same last election.
The diiference isn´t very huge. Last election they let the social democrats lead the country by alligning with the right wing parties to form an kind of like cartell.
So they decided: F*#k 13 percemt of the voters and just let through the social democrats instead of taking the power as an Right wing alliance, but with support from SD.
But the question is: can they really do that again this year? Especially now when there is an almost 50-50 tie. Foreign votes haven´t been counted yet. (Swedes living outside of Sweden that send their votes by mail), and they calculated that there most likely will be a 50-50 tie.
Jesus Sweden's election is going crazy, I think anonomly knew it was getting worse and left lmao
What's going on in Sweden exactly?
rapes
some voting fraud it looks like. or potential fraud or at least tampering
Left loses in an election
Accusations of vote tampering and fraud follow shortly after
Everyone *always* alleges vote tampering.
The question is which one has voter registration in excess of 100% in some place.
Red state obviously leans right, but the story is so silly as to be unbelievable, but I've heard this multiple places and believe it is true.
I'm obviously biased but I wouldn't put anything past the democrats. The ends justify the means in their mind. For the low-level footsoldiers the ends is some nebulous utopia and for the higher-ups it's naked power. In either case a little voter fraud is a small price to pay.
Digging a bit deeper, it's not just blue-leaning districts (though the article source might give you that impression). Still was a famous tendency of machine politics to have all sorts of screwy voter numbers.
A bit late, but here are the election results (final counting is still ongoing)
144- Red-Greens
28, **Vänsterpartiet - socialism, environmentalism, feminism, eurosceptic**
101, *Socialdemokraterna - social democracy, feminism*
15, **Miljöpartiet - environmentalism, green, feminism**
142- the Alliance
30, *Centerpartiet - social liberalism, green, liberal feminism*
19, **Liberalerna - social liberalism, liberal feminism**
70, *Moderaterna - liberal conservatism*
23, **Kristdemokraterna - social conservatism**
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63, *Sverigedemokraterna - national* & *social conservatism,* *nationalism,* eurosceptic _
Hmm
So what exactly is it that's so extraordinary about this election? Is it not normally so close, or are new parties gaining more steam, or what?
One thing is that it's very close, yeah - and there's a party no one wants to work with inbetween that has become very large.
After the last election the two alliances decided to make a deal to avoid working with the Sweden democrats, letting the Green party & the Social democrats sit in government.
Now the Alliance parties want the Prime Minister to resign and would refuse to cooperate with him in government. He and his party, however, wants to stay.
The Sweden democrats are still open to work with just about anybody, left or right.
Thank you.
The Greens were almost kicked out of the parliament aswell - you need atleast 4% of the votes and they received 4,3%.
“ Realizing you’re a pedophile can make you want to kill yourself” by Paul Willis on Vice
In an attempt to normalize pedophilia Vice quotes a professor calling it a “ sexual preference “. Then they attempt to demonize those that stigmatize pedophiles by blaming them for pushing these degenerates into depression .
http://archive.today/6ARlT
I do have some sympathy for them. The ones that don't do anything about it that is. Whether or not it is a sexual preference doesn't really matter. Most serial killers are born broken and that is excepted, we don't feel sorry for them, we lock them in a cage until they die. It's the same thing in my eyes.