The French run election opinion polls however it isn't legal to publish them during an election so that is how the French media can give a result immediately the polls close but can't give running reports during the campaign.
The Irish use a voting preference system disqualifying unpopular candidates and redistributing their votes until someone has a majority that takes time and means they don't have final confirmed results for a few days in some constituencies
With voterID, hand count, and paper ballots, it’s hard to add fraudulent votes. But it’s still easy to destroy votes. If you prorate the 2012 voter turnout on the 2022 registered voters and subtract Macron’s votes and the null/blank ballots, you have more votes remaining than Macron received. Has anyone looked into this? I’m not saying it would be trivial for the cities to destroy ~6m LePen ballots in aggregate, but “the lowest turnout in 50 years” following the govt’s horrid response to a pandemic that affected literally everyone for two years and counting is incredibly suspicious. Personally the first thing I would do is see if the voter turnout was higher than last cycle in most places but very depressed in large cities where lots of voters reside.
The French run election opinion polls however it isn't legal to publish them during an election so that is how the French media can give a result immediately the polls close but can't give running reports during the campaign.
The Irish use a voting preference system disqualifying unpopular candidates and redistributing their votes until someone has a majority that takes time and means they don't have final confirmed results for a few days in some constituencies
With voterID, hand count, and paper ballots, it’s hard to add fraudulent votes. But it’s still easy to destroy votes. If you prorate the 2012 voter turnout on the 2022 registered voters and subtract Macron’s votes and the null/blank ballots, you have more votes remaining than Macron received. Has anyone looked into this? I’m not saying it would be trivial for the cities to destroy ~6m LePen ballots in aggregate, but “the lowest turnout in 50 years” following the govt’s horrid response to a pandemic that affected literally everyone for two years and counting is incredibly suspicious. Personally the first thing I would do is see if the voter turnout was higher than last cycle in most places but very depressed in large cities where lots of voters reside.