Presidential. Why all the voters of the largest polling station in Toulouse voted void… in spite of themselves – Actu Toulouse

By Guillaume Laurens Published on 14 Apr 22 at 18:56 Actu Toulouse See my news Follow this media The result of the vote in the largest polling station in Toulouse was canceled by the Constitutional Council. (© Illustration/Guillaume Laurens/Actu Toulouse) All the voters of a polling station in Toulouse finally voted “null”… in spite of themselves! The Constitutional Council indeed validated Wednesday April 13, 2022 the result of the first round of the he presidential election, which was held last Sunday in France, and among the approximately 35.9 million voters, 10,216 votes were canceled by the Elders in 22 polling stations in France, due to various irregularities. And it was in the Pink City that there were the most canceled votes. As a result, the local and national results had to be reassessed. A difference of… 700 voters! In its decision, the Constitutional Council explains that in polling station 130, located at the Fontaine Bayonne school, in the Cartoucherie district , there were “significant and unexplained discrepancies between the figures recorded in the minutes retracing the results and those appearing in the counting sheets”. In this polling station, which has 1,920 registered voters, and which is the largest in the Pink City, the Constitutional Council found itself faced with a difference of around 700 voters. Problem.”In polling station No. 130 in the municipality of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), in which 1,479 votes were cast, the departmental census commission noted significant and unexplained discrepancies between the figures entered in the trial. -verbal retracing the results and those appearing in the counting sheets.The Constitutional Council not being able to exercise its control over the regularity of the votes, it is necessary to cancel all the votes cast in this office .The Constitutional Council Decision No. 2022-195 PDR of April 13, 2022 What exactly happened here? Thomas Pedoussaut, who had the heavy task of presiding over this XXL polling station – which should be the subject of a redistricting this summer – traced on twitter the marathon day his “awesome team” faced all day Sunday, facing a huge queue outside, from 9:15 a.m. “Starting at there”, he explains to Actu Tou louse, “we didn’t see the sun again until 7:20 p.m. People who arrived at noon did not vote until after 1 p.m. I was very afraid of arriving at 8 p.m. and that not all the voters would have been able to vote…” “This polling station grew suddenly at the start of the year: there were 500 new voters all of a sudden, It’s huge. It’s a recent district where people have just moved, or had not yet taken the step of registering on the electoral lists”.Sacha BriandDeputy mayor in charge of electionsAdvised of the situation, the deputy mayor in charge of the elections, Sacha Briand, went there at 6 p.m. “We were already at 1,300 voters,” explains Thomas Pedoussaut. They established “a protocol for 8 p.m.”, and decided to “urgently send a second set of polling sheets”, and a second team to deal with it. Finally, “around 7:20 p.m., there was no longer a queue outside and we closed at 8 p.m. in classic conditions”. So far, no problem. A “human error” at the Capitol As there were two polling sheets, during the counting, the votes of the 1504 voters ended up on a single report, but divided into two separate counting sheets (one with 700 voters, the other with 804). All of this was edited in duplicate (for the prefecture and for the town hall) then brought back to the Capitole, the centralizing office, where we got our brushes a little tangled up… The same two sheets were sent to the prefecture (which forwarded them to the Constitutional Council) and the two others left at the town hall…Videos: currently on Actu“An agent made a mistake and put the two sheets of the same table in the envelope intended for the prefecture. human error without consequence on the sincerity of the vote, nor on the national results”. Sacha Briand In the end, the Elders canceled the vote, without even trying to contact the town hall: “If there had been a contradictory procedure, we could have explained it”, observes Sacha Briand. “But having 48 hours to centralize all the results in France, the Constitutional Council probably did not have the time.” How did the voters of polling station 130 vote? The voters of this polling station in the Bourrassol district had yet fulfilled their civic duty more than the average of Toulouse, since 78.33% of them had moved to the polls (against 77.37% in Toulouse, a figure up from 2017). 40.23% of them voted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 22.92% of them for Emmanuel Macron, and 10.62% of them for Marine Le Pen. Here are the results in this office vote, canceled by the Constitutional Council therefore: Here are the results of the Fontaine Bayonne polling station, which have therefore been completely canceled, and classified among the “dummies” (© Toulouse Town Hall) Mélenchon backs down a hair, Macron goes back a little This decision marginally changes the results of the City of Toulouse, where the number of invalid ballots jumped from around 900… to 2,398! Upon arrival, Jean-Luc Mélenchon fell very slightly from 36.95% to 36.93%, when Emmanuel Macron rose from 26.39 to 26.42%. Here are the final results (and corrected for the first round of the presidential election in Toulouse: Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON: 72,169 votes, 36.93% Emmanuel MACRON: 51,633 votes, 26.42% Marine LE PEN: 18,653 votes, 9.54% Yannick JADOT: 14,343 votes, 7, 34% Éric ZEMMOUR: 12,513 votes, 6.40% Valérie PÉCRESSE: 7,447 votes, 3.81% Jean LASSALLE: 5,245 votes, 2.68% Anne HIDALGO: 5,007 votes, 2.56% Fabien ROUSSEL: 4 054 votes, 2.07% Nicolas DUPONT-AIGNAN: 2,343 votes, 1.20% Philippe POUTOU: 1,391 votes, 0.71% Nathalie ARTHAUD: 638 votes, 0.33% What are the reasons for cancellation elsewhere in France? Missing attendance lists in five towns in Aisne and Oise, a forgotten minutes in Oise, ballot boxes left open during the vote in Alpes-Maritimes and Deux-Sèvres, a office that had folded shop an hour too early in ns l’Isère, without forgetting this polling station president who was a little too aggressive with a delegated magistrate from the Constitutional Council in the Vosges… The reasons which led to the cancellation of the votes in 22 polling stations in France on Sunday are diverse and varied! champion of the first round is… in Pas-de-CalaisIf the decision of the Constitutional Council is a blow for the Toulouse polling station team, and for the voters, let it be said: the nickel-plated feet of the ballot do not are certainly not in Toulouse: in the town of Lscale (Pas-de-Calais), the delegate magistrate of the Constitutional Council noted that, “in disregard of article R. 40 of the electoral code, the mayor had taken the ‘initiative to organize the voting operations at his domicile’. If the wise men do not specify whether the city councilor had also planned the aperitif for the 30 participants in the vote, they note that the places “were not subject to any signage” and were of course “devoid of a voting booth”. Was this article helpful to you? Note that you can follow Actu Toulouse in the My Actu space. In one click, after registration, you will find all the news of your favorite cities and brands.