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Election Fraud Through Postal Voting in Saxony-Anhalt Predetermined? Interview with Ulrich Vosgerau at Tichys EinblickWhile the left-green elite, including the CDU and SPD, celebrates “our democracy” in glossy festivities on public broadcasting, the very foundation of this “our democracy” is sinking into bureaucratic chaos in Magdeburg. Hundreds of duplicate postal voting documents, third shipments with new numbers, citizens being told to “simply destroy” them — and nobody guarantees that the invalid ballots will not nevertheless end up in the ballot box. The state, which considers itself infallible, cannot even organize an election without errors. In his conversation with Maximilian Tichy, Ulrich Vosgerau dissects the scandal and the deeper truth: Postal voting was never envisaged by the Basic Law. What is happening here is the creeping transition to post-democracy — under state supervision. Democratic Hypocrisy at Its Finest: The State Celebrates Itself While the Election Turns into a FarceElections in Germany? Apparently an annoying detail that somehow has to be ticked off, as long as the right parties remain at the helm. While television endlessly drones on about “our democracy,” Magdeburg reveals the true face of the system: In 440 known cases, postal voting documents were printed and sent out twice. The authorities simply declared them invalid, sent out a third set of documents with new numbers — and instructed citizens to kindly destroy the surplus ballots themselves.Ulrich Vosgerau puts it plainly: The documents are out there. Nobody controls what actually happens to them. The numbers are supposedly checked when the documents arrive at the authorities, rather than only on election night. Whether this happens in every case? “Hard to verify.” Everything is in the hands of the very same authorities that produced the error in the first place. And who ultimately counts the votes? Often not in public polling stations, where citizens can watch, but behind closed doors in separate postal ballot offices or government rooms. Trust? Nowhere to be found. The Magdeburg Debacle: 440 Duplicate Ballots — and the State Says, “Just Destroy Them Yourself”The procedure borders on mockery. Duplicate numbers, then new numbers, and the old ones are simply supposed to disappear. Vosgerau recalls earlier disputes surrounding the 2021 federal election: Even then, complaints concerning the scrutiny of the election alleged that number comparisons were often not carried out during the counting process. The authorities claimed that the documents had been checked “in advance.” So the public is expected to trust the authorities themselves to decide which votes they will accept.Worse still: In the past, authorities have outsourced the administration of incoming postal voting documents to private companies — a practice that even cautious commentators have criticized as impermissible because the electoral process must remain in state hands. That still provides no guarantee of correctness. The postal voting scandal in Stendal in 2014 shows where this can lead: A CDU politician with access to election office data was able to manipulate the process on a massive scale — harassing elderly people, ordering voting documents without their knowledge, or redirecting votes. Whoever knows the data and knows who is a reliable non-voter holds the key to electoral fraud. In Magdeburg, the duplicate and triplicate documents are now out there. Citizens are supposed to destroy them. The oversight? Abandoned! Authorities Arbitrarily Decide Which Votes Count — Behind Closed DoorsPostal voting turns a public responsibility of the state into a private problem while simultaneously creating a government monopoly. The documents are stored by authorities for a long time before eventually being counted — often not in places where the public can watch. Vosgerau argues that, in principle, there should be no postal voting at all. The Basic Law assumes voting in person exclusively. It speaks of election day. Postal voting was introduced by law in 1956, first used in 1957, and fully liberalized in 2009 — without any requirement to provide a reason. Since then, anyone can simply request a postal ballot. In 2009, the Federal Constitutional Court had still stated that postal voting must not become the norm. In the 2021 federal election, its share stood at 47.2 percent, and in 2025 it was still 37 percent. The norm has long since been reached — and the court looked the other way.Why Postal Voting Is Actually Illegal — and the Constitutional Court Goes Along With ItVosgerau challenged the 2021 election because the proportion of postal votes had exceeded the threshold at which it effectively became the norm. The court weighs violations of the secrecy, freedom, and equality of elections against the principle of “universality” — and in doing so systematically confuses the legal principle of universal suffrage (equal external conditions for everyone) with maximizing voter turnout. An empirical figure has nothing to do with the constitutional principle. Yet the court insists on this approach and thereby legitimizes the erosion of electoral principles.The problems are systemic:
The Creeping Death of In-Person Voting Since 1956 — and the Path to Post-DemocracyAlternatives exist: proxy voting models in the Netherlands or France, no postal voting in the Czech Republic. Yet Germany has chosen the most convenient and riskiest path. The result: Responsibility for upholding electoral principles is shifted from the state onto citizens and authorities.Vosgerau places this within a broader process of decay. Democracy is shifting toward post-democracy — not with a trumpet blast, but gradually. Elites within the political-media complex are in agreement, regardless of what the voters want. In Saxony-Anhalt, “Campact” finances hundreds of thousands of euros in campaign support for the SPD and Greens and organizes “strategic voting” to harm the AfD — while private advertising for other parties is punished as an administrative offense. In the past, people would have railed against billionaire interference. Today it is accepted, as long as it is directed against the “right” targets. Added to this are the exclusion of candidates by electoral committees (as in Lower Saxony), which conduct preliminary checks of constitutional loyalty — often influenced by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and political competitors. Vosgerau considers this unconstitutional: Candidates should first be allowed to stand for election and only then be scrutinized, and that scrutiny must be independent. Democracy means being able to vote for whomever you want — not whomever the authorities approve in advance. The State Is Organizing Its Own Loss of CredibilityMagdeburg is not an isolated mishap. It is the logical endpoint of a development that has replaced secure in-person voting with an error-prone, opaque, government-controlled postal voting system. Citizens are supposed to destroy the surplus ballots while the authorities “check” the numbers and the counting takes place behind closed doors. There is no guarantee.Anyone who takes democracy seriously would have to drastically restrict or abolish postal voting and return to procedures that genuinely guarantee freedom, secrecy, and public oversight. Instead, the state celebrates itself on television while allowing the foundations to collapse. Above all, the CDU has repeatedly called for postal voting. Cynics might say that the goal is electoral fraud. Ulrich Vosgerau has put his finger on the wound. The question remains: How many more of these “mistakes” will it take before even the last citizen realizes that this is no longer about voting, but about administration? Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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