IT ISN’T JUST US:
"Interesting fact: without mail-in ballots, the AfD would have won 51% of the vote and secured an absolute majority.
Mail-in ballots made up 25.7% of all votes cast.
This system is easily manipulated and mail-in voting should be banned everywhere. pic.twitter.com/loyO47ExTr
— Martin Sellner (@MartinSellner_) September 7, 2026
Meanwhile, Axios spins AfD’s win as upstarts for Germany’s elites to squash, not as a legitimate expression of popular will: Far-right win in state election tests Germany’s political firewall.