• Polling station No. 130 in Toulouse had the results of its Sunday vote canceled due to irregularities.

  • More than 1,500 votes from Toulouse, including 40.23% for Jean-Luc Mélenchon and 22.92% for Macron, were therefore not counted in the results of the first round.

  • According to the town hall of Toulouse, it is not a question of fraud but of a human error between two documents transmitted to the prefecture.

All it took was one ticket slipped into the wrong envelope.

Office No. 130 of the municipality of Toulouse was a bit of a black cat during the first round of the presidential election.

Last Sunday, the 1,504 voters had already had to queue for several minutes before being able to slip their ballot into the ballot box.

What give cold sweats to the president of the office who in the emergency had to face this tide of voters at best with the means at hand.

It must be said that this office in the Bourrassol district is the largest in Toulouse, with more than 500 new registrants since the beginning of the year.

But all the votes cast, including 40.23% for Jean-Luc Mélenchon and 22.92% for Macron, will ultimately not be counted at the national level.

Decision n° 2022-195 PDR of April 13, 2022, [Declaration of April 13, 2022 relating to the results of the first ballot of the election of the President of the Republic]https://t.co/I3bjK2eoXO pic.twitter.com /WYXYwisLFi

– Constitution Council (@Conseil_constitution) April 13, 2022


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The Constitutional Council has in fact just canceled all of these votes, the departmental census commission having “noted significant and unexplained discrepancies between the figures entered in the minutes retracing the results and those appearing in the counting sheets” , he says.

No fraud, one mistake

Behind, there is no electoral fraud, but a simple human error assures the Capitol.

“The president came to City Hall, he had made two counting tables, so two sheets.

Instead of putting a copy of each table in the mail to the prefecture, the sheet of the same table was put twice.

And when the prefecture received these sheets, they did not ask for an explanation on the fact that they had two identical sheets, ”explains Sacha Briand, the deputy mayor in charge of the elections.

A quack that arouses the irritation of some voters.

“In short, it's as if I hadn't voted!

“, reacts one of them on social networks.

“It persists, these results are known, they do not disappear”, assures the elected official.

But they are not counted.

For the second round, next Sunday, he has already thought about splitting the identity check queue, to avoid waiting times again at office 130.

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