The Austrian Social Democrats said Monday the candidate it declared the winner of an intraparty election over the weekend didn’t actually win, and named the previously announced second-place candidate as the new head of the Party, Politico reported.
Hans Peter Doskozil, a populist governor of an eastern state, was initially named the winner of a special election held Saturday to determine the leader of the Party with 53% of the ballots, but on Monday, the Party said a data inputting error on an Excel spreadsheet incorrectly allocated votes, making progressive Traiskirchen mayor Andreas Babler the winner with 53% of the 600 votes cast. It’s unclear if Smartmatic or Dominion Voting Systems were used in the tally.