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It is Election Night 2022. Voters have just delivered their verdict. A narrow but clear loss for the current government.
But Prime Minister Stefan Löfven refuses to admit defeat. He claims that there has been a great electoral fraud.
He accuses the Christian Democrats and moderates of jointly organizing the trap together with the SD. Already in the months before the elections, he has affirmed that the only possibility that he will lose is if the opposite side cheats.
When demanded by opponents and the media to present proof of his accusations, Stefan Löfven refers to unconfirmed information that sacks of ballots have disappeared from some polling stations while unknown persons have handed out full ballots to others.
It further states that deceased persons have been able to vote and that there has been large-scale fraud with postal ballots in some constituencies.
Löfven claims that, in fact, it was he who won the “big” elections and refuses to resign.
The evidence Löfven refers to is individual stories and information on social media.
– Everyone knows that the moderates cheated, he says with certainty. It is a fraud against the Swedish voters.
Photo: LOTTE FERNVALL
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
Löfven is opposed to continuing to count the votes in the country’s electoral district after Election Day. He states that the result must be ready on election night, after which he must stop counting votes for which he has not had time. Except in strong social democratic strongholds where the votes can continue to be counted.
Löfven hires attorney Leif Silbersky to lead his legal team so that the election result is rejected. At the same time, the Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson is giving a reward of 10 million crowns as an encouragement to those who step up and report electoral fraud.
Lind is fired
The Social Democratic Party wants to retain power and is behind Löfven and claims that it has the full right to question the legality of the election result.
Democracy Minister Amanda Lind is one of the few in the government who will ask Löfven to admit defeat. She is fired immediately, but she referred to the fact that she is part of a conspiracy against Löfven.
The opposition is outraged for obvious reasons. Reference is made to the Swedish Election Law, which states that all votes must be counted, including postal ballots that arrive in the days after elections but are cast on Election Day and that it is important for democracy to be count all the votes.
Does the above scenario sound totally unlikely? Purely ridiculous? Completely “exaggerated”?
Maybe. But this is exactly what is happening in the United States right now.
Allegations that are completely off the air are treated as potential evidence of voter fraud that must be investigated and examined by the courts. The votes that, according to the different states, are correctly cast are being questioned by President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, which wants to reject the “illegal ballots.”
Photo: TT
United States: President Donald Trump.
There are differences between the legal systems of our two countries. In Sweden, it is the politically composed electoral committee that decides any accusation of cheating. Sweden does not have a constitutional court, which makes it more difficult to go to court in a matter like this.
“Strong drive to invent”
But when it comes to the actions of politicians, there are no significant differences. Other than that, the Swedish people would probably stand up like a man and tell Löfven to stop his bullshit and quit. OR?
According to a recent Reuters / Ipsos poll in the United States, 79 percent of Americans believe Joe Biden won the presidential election. But among Republican voters, 70 percent think the elections were not free and fair according to another Politico poll.
This despite election officials in 49 states, both Democrats and Republicans, claiming that there has been no widespread or organized election fraud. Texas is the only state that did not respond, but the Republican lieutenant governor has awarded a bounty of nearly 10 million crowns to anyone who steps up and exposes voter fraud.
After the elections in Sweden 2018, there were around 500 allegations of electoral fraud. Almost all were removed by the Election Review Board.
“There is a strong human drive to make things up about the election that are not true,” Fran LaRose, a Republican and electoral general from Ohio state, told the New York Times. Conspiracy theories and rumors abound greatly. For whatever reason, options fuel this kind of mythology.
President-elect Joe Biden calls Trump’s refusal to admit defeat too shameful. At the same time, he believes that everything is resolved by January 20 of next year when he will take the oath.
Hopefully he is right.
And let’s hope, for Sweden’s sake, that Stefan Löfven has no plans to do a Trump 2022 if he loses.
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