Anyone who has objections to the election results can file an appeal with the Election Review Board, which received many appeals regarding the suspected election fraud in Dalarna on Monday. However, Emma Hellman cannot give an exact figure for how many apply to this particular case.
"They refer to what appears in the media. I have not noted any appeal where someone has been involved themselves, but it is media information that appears in the appeals that have been received," she says.
The Election Review Board - the highest authority for general elections - is reviewing whether the election was conducted properly. After the last parliamentary election, the board had not taken a position on all cases until December.
"Something new arises in every election that has never been seen before," says Krister Hammarbergh, a member of the committee and former Member of Parliament for the Moderate Party.
First time
According to information provided to Dagens Industri, the suspected election fraud in Dalarna concerns marked ballot papers.
If that were the case, it's nothing I've experienced before, says Krister Hammarbergh.
In that case, you must act urgently.
In every election, errors occur, he notes, but it is not enough for the Election Review Board to decide on a re-election for the constituency in question.
There must also be some form of probability that it influenced the election result.
Remade
Decisions on re-election are rare and have never been made for any constituency in the parliamentary election.
The 2025 Sami Parliament election was rerun after 93 ballot envelopes were not resealed. The 9,755 eligible voters were allowed to go to the polls a second time five months later.
There were also a number of other errors that played a role, says Krister Hammarbergh.
The municipal election in Falun in 2018 was also rescheduled after a mailbag with 126 early votes had not arrived on time.
