Expect Austrian Presidential Election Rerun

The New Observer
Jun. 16, 2016

There is an "extremely likely" chance that the Austrian Constitutional Court will order the presidential elections in that country to be rerun, according to a top constitutional expert at the University of Vienna.

Speaking to Der Standard newspaper, University of Vienna professor Theo Öhlinger also said that two of the complaints in the 150-page document filed with the constitutional court were “very serious.”

One of those complaints is about postal votes being counted in some places by municipal officers rather than the electoral commission as a whole.

Öhlinger added that it was also a serious concern that interim results were being published online before the polling stations had closed.

Such a practice actually opens up the possibility that individuals can easily manipulate the result, Öhlinger said.

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