Election officials in Germany's most populous state are now re-examining all vote tallies after errors were discovered in the state election a little over a week ago. A spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalia election authority told The Local on Tuesday that officials have asked all 128 voter districts to re-examine their vote tallies for abnormalities. The second vote is to choose a party, which then determines how many of the remaining seats the party receives. But in several districts, the AfD found that they had up to 10 percent of first votes, and yet 0.0 percent of second votes. Officials of a district in Mönchengladbach, for example, investigated and found that 37 second votes for the AfD had not been counted.

Source: The Local May 23, 2017 09:00 UTC