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The Alsatian Association BonSens.org asks the Constitutional Council to cancel the results of the election of April 24, 2022. Originally, the score of Marine Le Pen revised downward live on France 2. Explanations.
It was played during the election evening of April 24, 2022. France 2 announces the score of the two candidates live as they arrive. The journalist Jean-Baptiste Marteau announced: “We are connected live with the Ministry of the Interior. As soon as a polling station is validated, it appears there, and you see the number of votes per candidate.”
A first provisional result appears: “Emmanuel Macron: 13,697,236, Marine Le Pen: 13,899,494”. The candidate of the National Rally is leading with 202,258 votes ahead.
Computer bug or fraud?
A few moments later, at 9:20 pm and 51 seconds exactly, the screen of France 2 still shows a significant gap in favor of Marine Le Pen: Emmanuel Macron: 14,214,825 and Marine Le Pen: 14,432,396. “Yet, at the end of the count, at 3:30 am on April 25, 2022, the Ministry of the Interior will announce the following results:
– Total number of votes cast 32,077,401
– Votes for Emmanuel Macron: 18,779,641
– Votes for Marine Le Pen: 13,297,760
“How is it that Mrs. Marine Le Pen overtook Mr. Emmanuel Macron with 13,899,494 votes in the early evening of April 24, that at 9:15 pm she was still overtaking him with 14,432,396 votes, but that the Ministry of the Interior only attributed 13,297,760 votes to him at 3: 30 am?” asks the association’s lawyer, Diane Protat, in her petition to the Constitutional Council.
“A computer error”
The video of this sequence on France 2 has inflamed social networks, from the next day. It is the newspaper Le Monde that gives the explanation: “Regarding the 14 million votes attributed to the far-right candidate live, France Televisions admits that it is a computer error in the processing of figures provided by the Ministry of the Interior. “It is a purely technical bug, we displayed bad figures,” assumes the channel, contacted by Le Monde, in all transparency. For this presidential election, France Televisions wanted to innovate by allowing viewers to see in real time the distribution of votes in France, thanks to a system of data feedback from the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for the organization of political elections and the counting of votes.
Contested explanations
The association BonSens.org questions these explanations. “It would be a computer error in the processing of figures provided by the Ministry of the Interior … if there is a live link between France 2 and the Ministry of the Interior, why reprocess the figures before displaying them? Which is incompatible with a live broadcast…”
Le Monde further states that France Televisions called on a service provider to establish “the direct link with the ministry without any human intervention between the reception of the data and the display” but that, “when receiving votes from several municipalities, the computer added up some municipalities twice, instead of correcting and updating them correctly.”
The BonSens.org lawyer is astonished: “If the link is direct without any human intervention between the reception of the data and the display, what is the purpose of a computer that adds up the votes of certain communes twice in order to ‘correct and update them’? Again, why correct or update results sent directly from the Ministry of the Interior to a public service channel?
First round alert
The association BonSens.org considers “that this is a vast fraud that should lead to the cancellation of the results of the second round of presidential elections, because it has vitiated the general conduct of electoral operations and undermined the normal functioning of public authorities.
It also recalls that it has already alerted the OSCE-ODIHR (organization for the security of elections) on April 19, 2022 following “various potential irregularities noted during the first round.
To be continued…
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