The Electoral Authority: 500 people may have been affected by errors in early voting

Initially, the Electoral Authority warned that 4,000 people may have been affected by the early voting error - a figure which has since been revised to 500.

On Friday morning, the electoral authority was able to exclude 226 municipalities from having been affected by the error - thus there are still 64 municipalities remaining.

"Our work continues together with other municipalities to investigate whether any voters there may have been affected by incorrect registrations during the period August 26-September 3," the electoral authority writes in a press release.

Please do not vote early again

Voters who have voted early are asked not to vote early again, as one's vote will then be invalid. However, you can cast a new vote on election day.

The electoral authority will not be able to contact affected voters because it is not known who they are.

"But we will as soon as we can present if there are polling places and times where voters may still be affected by misregistrations in early voting. This is to give voters who may be affected a chance to vote again in their polling place on election day."

Three million early votes

So far, over three million voters have voted early.

This is an increase of 21 percent compared to the number of early votes in the same period in the 2022 election.

- We continue to see great interest in early voting in this year's election, says Anna Nyqvist, head of office at the Swedish Electoral Authority in a press release.