The Ekre party refused to accept the election result the night after the election. According to chairman Martin Helme, there were uncertainties in Estonia’s electronic voting.
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TALLINN The conservative People’s Party Ekre was leading in Sunday’s parliamentary election vote count until the results of the electronic voting were announced.
Then the Prime Minister Kaja Kallasen the reform party shot far past Ekre. It ended up getting 31.2 percent of the vote. 68.2 percent of them came electronically.
Ekre came second with 16.1 percent. Share of electronic votes (you switch to another service) of the party’s votes was 27.9 percent.
On Thursday, Ekre announced that he would apply to the Supreme Court of Estonia to annul the results of the electronic voting.
– The simplest information security and verifiability requirements have not been met, Ekre’s chairman Martin Helme criticize electronic voting (you switch to another service) in his party’s press release.
The party also claims that there were ambiguities and technical problems in the electronic voting during the early voting week of the elections.
Kallas: Ekre is looking for a scapegoat for his defeat
Ekre’s lawyer Paul Keresin by the organization of electronic voting has been entrusted (you will switch to another service) In Estonia, entirely to the Central Election Board.
– The law regulates electronic voting very poorly, practically not at all. Based on that, we argue that it is unconstitutional, Keres told the Estonian Public Radio.
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said at the government’s press conference on Thursday (you will switch to another service)that he has talked about electronic voting with Martin Helme.
– I feel that he is playing a cynical game in public. He doesn’t believe his claims himself, Kallas stated.
According to Kallas, Ekre has built a story about falsifying electronic voting to justify his election loss.