The names of around 672,000 people who cast their votes in the June 7 general election are missing from the voter lists that were prepared ahead of the Nov. 1 snap election, according to a statement made by Republican People's Party (CHP) İzmir deputy Erdal Aksünger during a press conference on Monday in İzmir.
“In addition to the 672,000 missing names, around 422,000 new names that did not appear on the June 7 general election list were added to the voter lists. Moreover, since the June 7 elections, more than 1 million students have changed their residential addresses to different cities."
According to a list released by Aksünger, 54,000 voters' names are missing from the list for İstanbul's first electoral district, with 40,000 gone from the second electoral district and 51,000 from the third. In Ankara, 24,000 voters' names remain unaccounted for in that city's first electoral district, while 20,000 are absent from the second. 18,000 voters' names are missing from Izmir's first electoral district and 16,000 more names have simply disappeared from the second electoral district list. More unsettling statistics out of Antalya reveal that 23,000 voters' names are missing, with another 22,000 voter names still unaccounted for in Bursa.
The large fluctuation in these numbers has widely been attributed to the result of the June 7 elections during which the leading parties narrowly won parliamentary seats by small margins in some provinces.
For instance, in Amasya, where three parliamentary deputies were elected in the June election, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lost one seat to the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) by only 681 votes. The MHP also lost three seats to the AK Party)in the provinces of Malatya, Çankırı and Çorum by garnering approximately 1,500 fewer votes. Similarly, in Ankara's second constituency, the provinces of Kırklareli, Karaman, Şanlıurfa and Düzce, the AK Party beat the MHP by margins ranging from 5,000 to 8,000. The MHP also lost two seats to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the provinces of Iğdır and Kocaeli by a mere 1,200 votes.
Fuente: http://www.todayszaman.com/national_672000-voters-across-turkey-magicall...
