Sweden uses a party list proportional representation system. Seats are allocated based on how many votes a party gets, and they are allocated to parties first. The selection of who then sits in those seats then comes down to ”personröster” (literally “person-votes”, but I think they're conventionally translated as “preferential votes” or something like that), which are optional. Most voters do not put a cross next to their preferred candidate, they just put the party ballot paper in the envelope and the envelope goes in the box. And because they're optional, there's therefore a threshold for how many personröster a candidate has to receive to be elected. That threshold is 5% of voters in the particular electoral district. Only candidates that get more than 5% of votes are even considered in this process; if there's none (or not enough), then the candidates from the party list are taken.

The seat would have gone to the Left Party either way. But only this guy specifically got enough personal support to get elected. There's nothing that crazy about it. Participative democracy rewards those who choose to participate. In this case, it's a two-tier participation system. People who vote for a party, but not for a specific candidate, are letting the people who do vote for a specific candidate choose for them. And that's fine.

The direct translation of the article title is that they will "follow up" on election fraud reports, investigations etc.

All Swedish media have reported, and report several times per day about the ongoing investigations into election fraud in Sweden.

Here is a new article, where a specific case is being investigated by a special police force dedicated to threats against our democratic system:

'The police report concerns an incident alleged to have taken place at a polling station in Malmö on August 26. The case was registered on September 15 and is classified as suspected improper influence on voting.

The case has now also been transferred from the Malmö investigative duty unit to the unit for crimes threatening democracy (GDB).

This is a specialized police unit that handles crimes targeting—or risking an impact on—the democratic system.

According to the police, a preliminary investigation is underway, but due to confidentiality rules regarding such investigations, they are unwilling to disclose further details about the nature of the suspicions.

"In light of this ongoing investigation and applicable confidentiality regulations, we are unfortunately unable to provide further information regarding the content of the report or the status of the investigation at this stage," writes Fredrik Arvidsson, the former lead investigator, via the police press office.'

https://kvartal.se/jesperandersson/artiklar/misstankt-valbro...

I have been hearing about Sweden's downfall due to migrants for my whole life. And I'm not a young person.

If you can read Swedish the following article in Svenska Dagbladet (a major Swedish newspaper) gives an overview of what happened in voting locations in Järva (a city district of Stockholm):

https://archive.ph/zYXOA

If you can't read Swedish and don't feel like pulling the article through a translator I can provide some examples, taken from this article:

1. More than a hundred Eritrean women come in groups to vote early at the civic office in Husby. They are joined by two priests from their congregation. Everyone votes for the same party, and ticks the same candidate. The priests instruct the women how to do it.

2. A man is repeatedly driven out of the polling station in Tensta Library for giving instructions to others how to vote. On several occasions, he is caught handing out pre-filled ballots just outside the entrance.

3. At the end of August there's a constant stream of early voters in Rinkeby. Many do not know Swedish at all and have no idea how to act in a polling station or what they should vote for. But one thing they know, a task they have been given, and a phrase they can say, “Number eight”. Ilyas Hassan, from Husby. Member of the board of the communist party. Their countryman.

4. An elderly woman with a perambulator comes in for early voting in the company of an employee of the municipal civic office next door. When the old lady walks up to the election official, the 'assistant' leaves the venue. Just when the official is about to put the ballot envelopes in the voting box the woman suddenly exclaims “stop”. And then she tells her that she really wants to vote for another party. But that she had needed help at the office to copy some documents, and that the person who worked there only wanted to assist her if she first went and voted for the Communist Party.

5. A [man] in Tensta appears to habitually accompany voters into the early voting room. He even tries to get behind the screen to 'help' them put voting forms he provided into the envelopes. He is repeatedly driven out. When one of the election officials goes to Tensta square he sees the man. He sits in the Communist Party's election cabin and wears a yellow vest with the party's sigil.

6. In all early voting rooms in Järva voting officials need to check voting form stands several times an hour. More often than not things have happened. Voting forms have been moved or hidden. And constantly pre-filled voting forms are found between the others or are left on the table, mostly for the Communist Party, usually marked for candidate number eight.

7. Staff in the voting locations - one of the sources says that it happened to him three times - are discreetly summoned to the voting booths by voters. They nervously whisper that they want help with the disposal of pre-filled voting envelopes without anyone seeing this because they want to personally choose what to vote for.

8. Remote control via mobile phones. Many of the early voters in Järva stand with their phone behind the voting screen. They have photos or written instructions sent to them to make sure they choose the right party and candidate. Others make video calls for help to do the right thing. Not sure to whom.

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[election officials] also agree on what terms should be used to describe what they have seen. “Clan voting, election influence and voter fraud at a level I have never seen before,” one of the officials said. Another argues that it was obvious that clans and mosques ruled much of the vote, and that ignorant voters – mostly women – were systematically misled and exploited.

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“Should police and prosecutors investigate what happened, and how?” [the writer] asks . The answer comes after a while.

“Yes,” he replies, “and I don’t want to be involved any more if it’s going to be this way.”

This does not sound like 'the 2026 election was not particularly remarkable'. The small margins in the Swedish elections mean it only takes a few thousand of these coerced votes to significantly change the outcome. It is time to defend our democracy. Clan and mosque voting is not part of our democracy and should not become so either, agree?

> good I say

It looks like credible evidence has been raised. But I see zero evidence any international organizations are investigating in the way that term is usually used. “Have taken note of” is more accurate.

Ledarsidorna is an alt-right blog, not a serious news source.

The political party "Vänsterpartiet" is not translated as "the communist party". Correct is "Left Party".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Party_(Sweden)

Or we can start calling SD by their proper neonazi name as well.