RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Austria's Green Party Candidate wins presidential election by less than .6% of the vote.

BBC: Austria far right thwarted, Van der Bellen elected president

• Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria's presidential election, preventing Norbert Hofer from becoming the EU's first far-right head of state.
  
  Mr Van der Bellen, a pro-EU independent backed by the Greens, beat Mr Hofer by just 31,000 votes among the 4.64m cast.
  
  The president-elect vowed to address the "divisions" among Austrians that the poll had "made visible".
  
  Mr Hofer's campaign had targeted anti-EU feelings and fears about migrants. He said his defeat was a "sad day".
  
  The Freedom Party candidate said on his Facebook page (in German): "Please don't be disheartened. The effort in this election campaign is not wasted, but is an investment for the future."
  'Relief'
  
  The interior ministry said Mr Van der Bellen had won 2,254,484 votes to Mr Hofer's 2,223,458, or 50.3% to 49.7%.

I smell bullshit. And so do a lot of disenfranchised Europeans at this point.

Q: Why do you wait till the end to count Absentee Ballots?
A: So you'll know how much you have to inflate the vote.

He could do that by striking the source of the division. By suspending Austrian immigration for 20 years or so, until the current wave of immigrants are assimilated. Monitored closely. And those who don't assimilate should be deported.

Pat Buchanan suggested the same policy for the U.S. in his 2006 book STATE OF EMERGENCY. A 20-year hiatus on further immigration, until the current wave is assimilated.
When jobs are scarce, when ethnic division is increasing, when illegals are so numerous they cannot be tracked by police or INS, or even FBI, that is the obvious solution.

The U.S. narrowed its immigration down to 200,000-300,000 a year from the 1930's till 1965 (until the Ted Kennedy/Democrat-led Immigration Reform Act took Europeans from 89% of U.S. population down to 65%, and dropping rapidly, something the nation was assured would not happen, but was clearly planned).

In both Europe and the U.S., this overwhelming third-world immigration, vastly changing Western culture and national identity, is part of a globalist plan to destroy nationalism, as part of the planned drift toward a one-world global government.

Imagine a radical-muslim Britain with nuclear weapons.
Imagine a radical-muslim France with nuclear weapons. Sharia law. Honor killings. Non-muslims persecuted and killed. Women forced to comply with muslim dress codes, but raped, persecuted and harassed regardless. Where does anyone think these escalations are headed? For all the head-in-the-sand liberal denial, this is exactly where it's headed.

Apparently, Brexit is on track for a similarly controversial event, what with 1.4 million millennials registering to vote in the past week or so that are likely to vote Remain.

The whole thing strikes everyone as being more than a little fishy since the registration process to vote doesn't require anything more beyond a few moments of effort.

Breitbart: Austria Presidential Election Annulled After ‘Serious’ Postal Vote Fraud

• Austria’s Constitutional court has today ordered May’s presidential election be annulled and another called after “particularly serious cases” of voting fraud were detected in the photo-finish vote.
  
  The Green party-backed candidate Alexander Van der Bellen originally snatched victory by a mere 0.6 per cent in the second round vote, which was taken to decide the new president of central-European state Austria in May. He had made it to the round alongside Freedom Party (FPO) candidate Norbert Hofer, who campaigned to protect Austria from mass migration and Islamification.
  
  Now the Austrian Constitutional court has upheld a complaint by the FPO about conduct in the election. The party had alleged that there were voting “irregularities” in 94 of the 117 total electoral constituencies in the country, reports Kronen Zeitung.
  
  It is not known how many of the 94 areas alleged to have voting irregularities have been investigated, but the court identified “20 particularly serious cases” after interviewing 67 witnesses. Two witnesses are reported to have refused to give a statement. The allegation is that in these areas the postal ballots were opened and sorted before the arrival of Electoral Commission arrivals, meaning they could have been easily tampered with.
  
  Given that the election was carried by just 30,863 votes, and up to 740,000 postal votes are in question the Constitutional court has now ruled the vote should be re-run, although the date for this has not yet been announced. Until the new vote in Autumn, the role of Austria’s Presidency will be fulfilled by a three-member National President Council (Präsidium des Nationalrats) — on which the FPO presidential candidate Norbert Hofer already sits.
  
  President of the constitutional court Gerhart Holzinger said the ruling “does not make you a loser or a winner” to representatives of the two parties present in the court room this morning, and said the sentence had been passed to “strengthen confidence in the rule of law and democracy”, reports Germany’s Die Welt.
  
  Breitbart London reported in May that Freedom party secretary Herbert Kickl had spoken out before the vote over the “unusually high number” of postal ballots requested. He warned at the time that “[postal votes] repeatedly show inconsistencies”.
  
  The decision comes just seven days before Green-backed candidate Alexander Van der Bellen was due to be officially sworn in as President of Austria.
  
  Even before the allegations of electoral fraud, the vote was already considered extraordinary as it is the first time in modern Austrian history where none of the candidates in the final round were representiatives of the mainstream parties. Rather than a run-off between the Austrian People’s Party (OVP) and Social Democratic Party (SPO), the presidency was up between either the populist-right Hofer, or Green der Bellen.
  
  Hofer, who initially told press his party would not be contesting the elections despite the close vote before the serious voting problems became apparent, campaigned on his Euroscepticism and opposition to mass migration to Austria.

The left. Home of the "By Any Means Necessary" ideologues.