Alexis Delafontaine, edited by Solène Leroux 2:34 p.m., April 18, 2022
During the first round of the presidential election, 226,960 voters were struck off by mistake, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.
What caused these write-offs by mistake?
A software bug, this is the official reason for these radiations, according to INSEE.
Imagine: you are queuing to go and vote next Sunday and once you arrive in front of the assessors, they tell you that you are not registered on the electoral lists, when you thought you were.
In the first round of the presidential election, this is what happened to tens of thousands of people.
Exactly 226,960 voters were struck off by mistake, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.
What caused these write-offs by mistake?
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A truncated vote?
A software bug, this is the official reason for these radiations, according to INSEE.
In detail, since the regional elections of 2021, the electoral lists have been automated.
Concretely, the transition from paper to digital did not take into account all voters.
Most of them realized this when they arrived at the polling stations last Sunday.
These 220,000 radiations raise a question, because for several candidates like Valérie Pécresse or Yannick Jadot, these thousands of missing votes could have allowed them to exceed 5%.
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Faced with the magnitude of the bug, several mayors have already taken the lead in checking the lists themselves to hope for a correction of the bug before the second round.
If you yourself have been the victim of this anomaly, you have to go to the local court and normally, the judge automatically re-registers you on the lists, which can allow you to vote on Sunday for the second round.