The Supreme Court has reported on the inspection of ballots in Bychawa, Orzysz, Gdańsk, and two precincts in Poznań. In Bychawa, 97 votes for Karol Nawrocki were mistakenly recorded as votes for Rafał Trzaskowski. In the other mentioned precincts, the errors ranged from one to eight votes.
The Supreme Court announced that during Friday’s session it inspected ballots from the following electoral precincts:
- Precinct No. 4 in the municipality of Bychawa (Lublin Voivodeship),
- Precinct No. 4 in the municipality of Orzysz (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship),
- Precinct No. 9 in Gdańsk,
- Precinct No. 36 in Poznań,
- Precinct No. 109 in the city of Poznań.
“These precincts, among others, were listed by the individual filing the electoral protest, alleging incorrect determination of the number of votes cast for individual candidates in the second round of the presidential election,” the statement reads.
The Supreme Court found that in precinct No. 4 in Bychawa, the correctly counted votes for candidates Rafał Trzaskowski (163) and Karol Nawrocki (260) were mistakenly switched in the handwritten protocol. “As a result of this error, 97 votes cast for Karol Nawrocki were assigned to Rafał Trzaskowski,” it states.
Meanwhile, in precinct No. 9 in Gdańsk, three invalid votes were recorded. “In the bundle of votes for Karol Nawrocki, there were 958 ballots instead of 957 valid votes, with 2 being invalid. In the bundle of votes for Rafał Trzaskowski, there were 2294 valid votes instead of 2295, with 1 being invalid. As a result, each candidate was mistakenly credited with one extra vote,” the statement explains.
In precinct No. 36 in Poznań, the protocol recorded 2,600 votes for Trzaskowski, which was eight more than he actually received (2,592). In precinct No. 109 in Poznań, the inspection revealed that “one vote cast for Rafał Trzaskowski was mistakenly assigned to Karol Nawrocki.”
The Supreme Court concluded that the protest was justified in terms of the identified errors but determined that they did not affect the outcome of the election. The remaining parts of the protest were dismissed.
Resolution Scheduled for Tuesday
Monday was the final day to submit protests to the Supreme Court regarding the presidential election. Protests continued to arrive throughout the following week, as sending them by Polish Post by June 16 was deemed equivalent to filing them with the Court.
After reviewing all protests and based on the report on the elections submitted by the National Electoral Commission (PKW), the Supreme Court, in full session of the Chamber of Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs, will rule on the validity of the presidential election. The session to adopt the resolution regarding the election’s validity is scheduled for Tuesday, July 1, at 1:00 p.m.