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A comment on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round. Parent comment

Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by fallingknife on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:39PM (#42343455)
The part that I don't buy is that this is the way that campaign finance violations would ordinarily be handled. Would an election that was won by one of the mainstream parties be completely overturned and rerun if it were found that they violated some campaign procedure laws? I doubt it.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by cbg0 on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:47PM (#42343553)
This isn't a few forgotten expenditures, this is a candidate which reported no spending on their campaign and which allegedly had support from a foreign state. You can get away with some things, but we're not just talking about a technicality.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by Wytwwww on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:36PM (#42345783)
Why did they wait for the elections to do anything about that, though? Or do candidates only have to report their spending after the voting is done?
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by cbg0 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:33AM (#42348230)
From what I know the law says that they have up to 15 days after the election to submit their finance report, which is what allowed this to slip by undetected.
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