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Fact check: What's behind far-right electoral fraud allegations

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Right-wing politicians, parties and users often sow doubts about elections, ranging from election irregularities in the US to problems with postal voting in Germany .

The appeal by the AfD is part of a larger and long-standing strategy of sowing distrust in the democratic process.

The distrust is also popular on social media under the hashtag " Wahlbetrug " (voter fraud in German ).

The office of Brandenburg 's returning officer told DW that it hadn't received any information on electoral fraud allegations.

Nevertheless, Chrupalla 's comments are arguably helping to sow mistrust in the electoral process.

Aiko Wagner described them as a "gateway" for conspiracy theories, as people can believe that something is being manipulated behind the scenes.

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