Most of the signatures for the recall and dismissal request of Governor Omura of Aichi Prefecture were not recognized as valid, and the submitted signatures contained more than 8,000 dead people. understood.
It also included a number of seals of the same person and signatures that appeared to have been written outside the period.
The Aichi Prefectural Election Commission has suspected that 83% of the approximately 435,000 signatures submitted for Governor Omura's recall / dismissal request were not valid and that a large number of signatures were forged. I filed a complaint with the Aichi Prefectural Police Headquarters on suspicion of violating the Local Autonomy Law.
In response to this, the police began to seize the signature book kept in each municipality on the 24th.
Regarding this issue, the Aichi Prefectural Election Commission said that about 90% of signatures suspected to have been written by the same person and about 48 signatures of people who are not registered in the electoral list are the breakdown of signatures that are not recognized as valid. It is announced that it was%.
According to interviews with people concerned, it was found that these signatures had more than 8,000 signatures of those who had already died before the signing activity began.
In addition, more than 108,000 signatures, which are believed to have been stamped by the same person from the traces of the stamp, were written during the period from August 25 to October 25 last year, which is not the period of signature activity. It means that there were more than 11,000 signatures.
The police will investigate the seized signature book in detail and proceed with the investigation.