Complaints regarding Germany’s election in February have been submitted to a monitoring committee, and Berliner Zeitung has seen the details. In addition to Sahra Wagenknecht, whose party barely missed reaching the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament, Marcel Luthe, a former member of the Berlin House of Representatives and current president of the Good Governance trade union, also filed an 80-page complaint, with more than 200 pages of supporting documents.
Luthe lists the shortcomings of the federal election and how they may have influenced its outcome, perhaps even intentionally.
Just 10,000 votes could have significantly changed the composition of the German parliament, since with the entry of BSW, for example, the CDU/CSU and SPD government coalition would no longer be possible.
One of Luthe’s primary issues revolves around the difficulties Germans living abroad have in voting. His union collected numerous complaints from Germans overseas whose voting documents did not arrive on time, meaning they could not participate in the federal election.
Calling the election a “farce” on X, Luthe said it was “deliberately and systematically sabotaged” in such a way that “especially Germans living abroad, who don’t usually vote for the governing parties, were unable to vote effectively.”
Morgen wird die Bundestagswahl 2025 zwei Monate zurückliegen.
— Marcel Luthe – Good Governance (@GGLuthe) April 22, 2025
Zwei Monate, in denen der geänderte Wille des Souveräns nicht umgesetzt wurde, sondern dieselben Appartschiks weiter wursteln wie bisher.
Wie angekündigt werden wir morgen – form- und fristgerecht – diese Farce… pic.twitter.com/gZIP7QrFPV
“Two months in which the changed will of the sovereign was not implemented, but the same apparatchiks continued to muddle along as before. As announced, tomorrow we will challenge this farce of an election – in due form and within the deadline… I am curious to see how those responsible intend to wriggle out of the 85 pages of justification for the challenge – plus attachments. The Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Foreign Office play a central role in this,” he wrote.
Luthe also complains in his filing about the lack of accessibility at polling stations; the leak of “exit polls” by journalists on election day, which may have influenced the outcome; and the existence of the 5 percent hurdle itself.
The issue of voter ID also comes up. According to Luthe, the Federal Election Code mandates that voters must in most cases prove their identity using their official photo ID. However, going even further, he calls Germany’s voter notification itself a letter “without any forgery-proof feature,” which is insufficient in the effort to prevent unauthorized persons from voting.
In one glaring example provided in his complaint, the city of Stuttgart issued a letter to electoral boards requesting that voters with a voting notification be checked “only in cases of doubt, using ID.” In a leaflet for electoral boards, the city even stated that if a voting notification was available, this was “generally” sufficient.
Luthe says such policies allow for “significant abuse,” and given the 65,000 polling stations at stake, this could have led to tens of thousands of incorrectly cast votes and thus had a decisive influence on the election outcome.
Discrepancies are also said to have arisen due to voting notifications disappearing in the mail. There was reportedly at least one case of mass loss or theft of voting notifications in the 2021 election and also in the most recent federal election.
Further compounding concerns include eligible voters who had supposedly already voted were turned away from polling stations. Luthe cites a case in Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, where a voter was initially turned away from his polling station on the grounds that his vote had already been cast. He was eventually allowed to vote, but this was not an isolated case and raised concerns of false votes having been submitted.
In the polling station for Bad Kreuznach, more ballot papers were found than voters registered. Luthe is therefore demanding that all records from all polling stations be made available to him for review, as such an error violates “the integrity of the election in a significant way.”
Another issue already raised back in 2021 for Berlin’s parliamentary election is that of voter registers not being cross-referenced with death registers, with notifications mistakenly sent out to people no longer alive.
“The right to vote in Berlin still extends to residents in our cemeteries,” Luthe said.
For the election this past February, he says that more than 2.5 million additional eligible voters were registered who are actually dead.
Luthe told Berliner Zeitung: “As in 2021, the deliberate organizational failure is not apparent if one only considers individual cases without context and background.” In 2021, a repeat election to the Berlin House of Representatives was held. The most recent federal election also failed to meet the “requirements of the Basic Law for democratic elections,” he said.
The paper says the Electoral Review Committee can take months to process complaints, and an election review complaint can only be filed with the Federal Constitutional Court after these complaints have been rejected by this committee.
However, today, Luthe posted again on X, saying, “The media will address and dismiss the objections of the BSW and AfD. All the massive electoral errors will then go unreported, and the issue will be dead.”
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