AK Party’s spokespeople like very much using the excuse “Our votes were stolen” for the Supreme Electoral Council’s decision to re-run the mayoral election in Istanbul, despite the fact that the Electoral Council’s reasoned decision did not mention any ‘vote-stealing‘…
In my opinion, not the votes but the election itself was stolen.
The Electoral Council turns a blind eye to this situation.
Let it be so.
Going ahead with the same faulty election boards
The actual justification of the decision to re-run the election is, according to the Council’s reasoned decision, that some balloting committees, organized by the city and district election boards under the supervision of the highest judge in each electoral district, were consigned to individuals who were not civil servants…