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Delays and missorting of early votes in Postnord's deliveries

Postnord's new handling of early votes has led to logistical problems in several municipalities, including Örebro.

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Postnord's deliveries of early votes to polling stations have been delayed by approximately one hour and suffered from missorting.
In Örebro, around fifty votes have gone wrong, which risks delaying the vote count, which is now partially postponed until Wednesday.

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This year, Postnord has been given a new assignment to deliver early votes directly to the polling stations for marking and counting.

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Postnord's delivery of early votes to the polling stations is new for this year. And when the early votes were to be taken out today to be checked off and counted in the polling stations, they were delayed by about an hour.

In addition, several of the votes were missorted. In Örebro municipality, during the afternoon it is about fifty votes that were sorted incorrectly and ended up in the wrong polling station.

- You find them immediately when you scroll through the votes in the polling station. Then Postnord is contacted and they run the votes correctly. I know that several places around the country have had the same problem, says Johan Hellsten, election coordinator in Örebro municipality.

The vote count may take some time

The number of early votes is a record high this year and the consequence of the late delivery and missorting may be a later vote count.

- This means that the work on the early voting will start later. It is difficult to say anything about how long the procedure will be after the polling stations have closed, says Johan Hellsten.

The early votes that will not be able to be processed during the day will be processed when the preliminary counting of votes continues on Wednesday.