In the second round of the presidential election, significantly more votes were rejected than in the first.
On Wed, a meeting will be held starting at 6 p.m., where the votes will be officially accepted, etc. That's why pictures of the rejected votes may not be published before then. The exact time was not known, you can go until 19:00
Wetties numbers, stickers, catchphrases and misspelled names in connection with numbers. For these reasons, among others, some of the votes were rejected in the second round of the presidential election.
Helsinki in the electoral district, there are clearly more rejected votes in the second round of the presidential election than in the first round. The exact number cannot be determined before the audit count, but it seems that the number of rejected votes may even double.
In many cases, the number of a candidate who dropped out of the presidential race already in the first round of the election is written on the rejected ballot.
Creativity had been applied to some of the sounds. On the ticket above, Stubb's first name is misspelled.
We wanted to remember through President Sauli Niinistö.
Voices will be rejected if anything extra has been written or drawn on them.
The ballot should not read anything other than the candidate's number and at most his name.
Effort had been put into this work of art.
Helsinki secretary of the constituency committee Heikki Liljeroos estimates that the number of rejected votes has increased as a result of the result of the first round of elections.
“Perhaps people haven't found a suitable candidate for them out of the two, and that has led to the fact that some have gone to vote anyway.”
“Jussi Halla-ahoa for example, there has been a vote,” he says.
Regionally rejected votes have come uniformly from different parts of the electoral district.
“It would seem that there are no big differences that would particularly attract attention,” says Liljeroos.
Since the voices have not yet been officially approved, it is at least
theoretically possible that one of the voices appearing in the pictures in this article would eventually end up among the approved ones.
However, this vote did not name a third candidate.
Someone would probably have wanted to vote for Paavo Väyry, who has previously run for president.
This voice wanted to make it clear why it had been given.
Someone had written a poem in the voting booth.
Part however, the votes are clearly intended to be rejected. Votes have been given to persons who have never been a candidate in the Finnish presidential election. Such are, for example, a singer Taylor Swift and past President of the United States Donald Trump.
Some rejected voices have also gone to fictional characters, such as Donald Duck. However, according to Liljeroosi's assessment, it is less than in previous elections.
“Aku Ankka is losing its popularity”, Liljeroos laughs.
You can clearly see from some of the election tickets that effort has been put into them. For example, a picture has been brought to the polling booth, which is glued to the place where the number should be placed. Someone has also blossomed into poetry, because a poem about the candidates has been rhymed in the white circle.
In one voice, a position was taken on the war in Gaza.
Greetings were sent in this voice.
Someone had taken a sticker from the voting booth and glued it to the ticket.
The election officer was asked to apologize for the protest.
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