Vote Canvassing Has Been Going on in Gorinchem for ‘Thirty Years’, but This Time the Voting Cards Were Picked up Particularly Eagerly.

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Municipal elections: This year, voting cards were collected in Gorinchem for two council members. People appear to have been pressured at home, and an employee…

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The municipal elections in Gorinchem this year have been overshadowed by serious reports of vote rigging for parties such as D66. In several cases, voting cards were collected from residents' homes. This is said to have been happening for years, particularly within the Turkish community. This time, it led to so much unrest that the mayor filed a police report and the elections must be held again, reports the NRC following a reconstruction.

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Well, it is actually quite striking that in the controversial municipal elections in Gorinchem, it is primarily a few Turkish candidates who achieved exceptionally high numbers of preferential votes, while other candidates on their lists lag far behind. We are not the only ones who think so; NRC also writes this in a reconstruction of how it all went wrong. Voting cards were allegedly solicited for GroenLinker turned D66 member Ilhan Tekir, know…