Sturmflut<p>If you already think the German <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> results are bad:</p><p>The voting rules for federal elections contain a "5% hurdle". All votes for a party that doesn't get at least 5% in the end are completely discarded.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> regularly discards 10-15 percent (!) of the votes to protect the big, traditional parties and make life easy for politicians. In other countries we would call this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electionfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electionfraud</span></a>.</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undemocratic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuenfprozenthuerde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fuenfprozenthuerde</span></a></p>