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Threatened to vote a specific way on election day? A new Hungarian application offers solution
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Recently, concerns have increasingly emerged that some voters are being pressured (through threats to their jobs or livelihoods) to cast their ballots in a specific way. While such claims were long dismissed as urban myths, growing reports and posts in social media about these incidents suggest the phenomenon may be a real issue, particularly among vulnerable groups.
How does the “fake X” work?
A new solution, available via the Hamis-X (Fake-X in English) website, offers an alternative for the election day. The concept is simple: users take a photo of a blank ballot paper, then the application places a realistic, pen-drawn X onto the image. This edited photo can then be used as “proof” for those demanding evidence of a particular vote. Once the image has been created and shared, the voter is free to cast their actual vote in private, avoiding external pressure in the booth without complying with it in reality, writes Kreatív.hu.
Have you heard? Hungary has been rocked by claims of mass vote-buying ahead of 2026 elections.
Other options also exist, but not suggested
Beyond this technological workaround, other methods have been suggested. One approach is to inform election officials that the ballot has been spoiled and request a new one. Another option is – although not very helpful – to mark more than one choice after taking the photo, thereby invalidating the vote. Still, the Hamis-X application can help with safeguarding electoral freedom, which is a huge issue in Hungary today.
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Fidesz-KDNP mayor “disgusted”, exits party after endorsing Tisza candidate
The mayor of Bátonyterenye, István Orosz, has announced his departure from the Fidesz-KDNP (Christian Democratic People’s Party) after endorsing the candidate of the opposition Tisza Party for the election.
In a Facebook post addressed to party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Orosz confirmed that he had not been kicked out, but formally left the Fidesz-KDNP coalition and promised to explain his decision in greater detail in the coming days. The announcement came after another post in which the mayor declared his intention to support an opposition candidate in the upcoming parliamentary election.
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Ukraine is not part of the EU, so it’s nonsense to state that those who are against filling Ukraine’s pockets over and over again, while EU members are in high financial need and can’t heat their homes, are pro-Russia. The EU is purposely killing it’s economy, the people and that war could be over long ago.
Ukraine is part of Europe and it is on the front-line pushing back Russian imperialist aggression. With their defence against Russia they protect all of Europe so that soldiers from the rest of Europe do not have to fight Russian invaders. Our obligation is to provide all possible financial and military assistance to Ukraine so that we don’t have to fight. It is logically the best investment Europe can make. There is a military saying that the best defence is to not have to fight the enemy at your front door. Do some thinking on that one.
‘Ukraine is part of Europe and it is on the front-line pushing back Russian imperialist aggression.’
Given that the EU has repeatedly refused to allow ‘the Ukraine to join The European Union, they, Bruxelles, apparently disagrees with you.
As to ‘Russian Aggresssion’ : Russia did not overthrow the democratically-elected government of The Ukraine – that act the trigger for all the events that have followed.
Let’s be real : though the attempt to use The Ukraine as a foil to topple the Russian government has failed, there still remains the hope, among The Western Elite, to use that now completely hapless country as a kind of barrier/hedge state between the EU and Russia.
Coincidentally, that is exactly how Russia thinks about Ukraine, though, their idea of that is that the Ukraine will be demilitarized.
In my view, if The Western Elite do not accept the Ukraine as a demilitarized state, the likelihood that Russia will simply reenter all but the most western parts of it into The Russian empire, where, by the way, it was for 1,000 years.