• On April 13, the Constitutional Council announced that it was canceling more than 10,200 votes because of irregularities in certain polling stations, including one in Nice.

  • These are the votes of 475 voters who were not counted for this first round of the presidential election.

  • But not enough to demotivate some of them, as assured by a neighborhood association.

As in twenty-one other cases in France, the results of the first round of the presidential election from polling station No. 308 west of Nice were cancelled.

The 475 envelopes stripped there, at the Bois de Boulogne school, therefore did not count.

A decision taken following "significant and unexplained discrepancies between the number of votes cast, the number of blank or invalid ballots and the number of signatures", ruled the Constitutional Council.

According to the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had obtained 70.74% of the vote there, Emmanuel Macron 13.47%, Marine Le Pen 8.21% and Éric Zemmour 3.79%.

The other candidates did not exceed 1%.

And the turnout was 56%.

A cancellation that "demotivates the voters who have moved"?

Jean-Christophe Picard, elected from the environmental group for mayor of Nice, fears that this “regrettable” cancellation could “demotivate the voters who came for nothing”, he writes on the Mediapart blog.

Especially in this part of the city where it is difficult to mobilize.

A day of awareness had also taken place before the first round to encourage residents to register on the electoral lists and to go to the polls, on the initiative of the first deputy Anthony Borré and associations of the district.

During the first round of the last presidential election, 38.2% of registered voters did not speak.

" The error is human "

Among the associations active in this cause, the Homework Assistance Animation des Moulins (Adam).

“This year, the abstention at the level of the district is more or less equal to that local and national, affirms the director Karim Ben Ahmed.

It's encouraging.

With Adam, we help the population to access their rights but we also support them in their civic duties throughout the year.

Like going to vote.

»

He adds: “There was a mess at the polling station.

But the inhabitants know that it is an important time and that, sometimes, there are misses.

You have to put it into perspective because it's the only one in Nice.

It could have happened elsewhere but it happened at Les Moulins.

To err is human, everyone is aware of it.

This incident will not prevent voters from moving for the second round.

»

Avoid irregularities next Sunday

In any case, this is the state of mind of Philippe, 71, registered in office 308. “It is not pleasant to learn that our voice did not count.

Especially for this election.

But we did not vote for nothing and we will return.

For once we have the opportunity to express ourselves, we have to go there and take advantage of our right!

And even if the first time, it got stuck, we don't let go!

»

And to prevent this incident from happening again during the second round on Sunday, the town hall of Nice has planned to completely change the team at polling station No. 308,

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learned from concordant sources.

In total, the Constitutional Council invalidated 10,216 votes, that is to say 0.02% of the vote.

A percentage that does not change the final result of this first round of the presidential election.

The other reasons for these cancellations concerned irregularities such as the installation of a polling station at the home of a mayor, without a voting booth, early closing of the offices, or unlocked ballot boxes, as in Grasse, at office n ° 27 where 843 votes were annulled.

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