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Man, courts mandated a full recount. The only mistake they found was 13 missing votes. Which the court deemed to be within expected margins (don't ask me, I have zero experience with that). The result was a lost seat for the AfD, and an election deemed legitimate. So no fraud whatsoever.

And no, I have zero doubt the judges would have enforced a result that gave the AfD a seat at the expense of another party, if that was what the recounted result said. Only that it didn't.

This was a legal question, one that was answered. What you or I deem fraud or not became irrelevant at that point.




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