- Justice has opened an investigation after the revelations of suspected proxy fraud in the Republican camp in Marseille.
- For Louis le Foyer de Costil, lawyer in electoral law, the number of non-conforming proxies must be similar to the difference in votes between the candidates to alter the sincerity of the ballot.
- Voting cancellations could concern sectors more than the city as a whole.
Will the next mayor of Marseille be elected at the end of the second round? After suspicions of proxy fraud in the camp of the Republican candidate, Martine Vassal, justice has decided to open a preliminary investigation for "fraudulent maneuvers tending to the irregular exercise of proxy votes" as well as "false and uses of forgery ”. The responsiveness of the justice system is up to the seriousness of the suspicions of fraud.
For Louis le Foyer de Costil, lawyer in electoral law in Paris, "it is possible to have the ballot canceled in the event of a breach of the electoral code, if the sincerity of the ballot is altered". "If the judge has doubts about a number of proxies which is greater than, or close to, the final difference in votes between the candidates, he can then cancel the election on the basis of the alteration of the sincerity of the ballot. But the error must be significant. If there are errors on a hundred or so proxies and the difference between the candidates is more around a thousand votes, the change in the sincerity of the ballot is not obvious, ”he explains.
"The judicial time is longer than the electoral time"
He warns, “a lot of failures come to nothing, like display errors for example. It has to be characterized, otherwise there is a certain form of tolerance, ”he adds.
With the particular division into sectors in Marseille, it is more likely that cancellations will be pronounced on certain sectors, rather than on the whole of the city. Unless fraud on the scale of the city is proven. "But the judicial time is longer than the electoral time, especially two weeks before the election," warns Louis le Foyer de Costil.
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Municipal in 2020 in Marseille: New searches of two LR candidates after suspicions of fraud
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Municipal in 2020 in Marseille: Faced with suspicions of fraud, Martine Vassal requests the cancellation of all the proxies for the second round
- Martine Vassal
- Marseille
- The Republicans
- Fraud
- Cancellation
- Ballot
- Elections
- Municipal