Election Commission staff “Focused on blocking election-fraud conspiracy theories… but left ...

Theory Briefing

• Frontline Election Commission workers identified habitual, one-size-fits-all ballot allocation as the root cause of shortages at polling stations.
• Staff say management attention was directed at countering election-fraud conspiracy theories rather than fixing the operational gap they flagged.
• The mismatch between where institutional energy went and where the real problem sat left a practical failure unaddressed.
• Frontline workers' accounts suggest internal warnings about allocation methods were not acted on before the shortage occurred.