00:03Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:30The ballot packages lack the required polling cards, while neither the outer envelopes nor the ballot envelopes are sealed.
00:38The envelopes are shaped differently from the official versions, the ballots are folded in correctly, and the required papers for
00:45Berlin's district council elections are missing.
00:48This video is not the only one circulating with allegations of election fraud.
00:52As the vote took place, multiple accounts began posting the same video on X, alleging that mail-in ballots for
00:59the election in Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania, left out the AFD.
01:03However, the official sample ballot for the constituency shown clearly includes the AFD.
01:08State election chief Christian Burden confirmed to German news agency DPA that the party appeared on all genuine ballots.
01:16These posts were amplified by accounts known to have links to Russia.
01:21Researchers noted that they bear similarities to videos released in 2025 that were ultimately associated with Storm 1516.
01:29This is an influence network behind which Germany's intelligence service has described Russia as the central actor.
01:36It's far from the first time that Storm 1516, which aims to sow distrust in democratic institutions, has claimed election
01:43fraud.
01:44The AFD ultimately finished in first place in Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania,
01:49further contradicting claims that voters were prevented from choosing the party.
