Hungary’s 2026 election brought historic political change, with the opposition overcoming a system tilted in favor of the ruling party.

Over the past two decades, systemic election fraud, vote-buying for money and drugs, and blackmail has ran rampant in the impoverished countryside of Hungary. We talked to the head of the volunteer group who decided to put a stop to this practice.

Before the election, forged signatures helped candidates to get on the ballots, while election day rules effectively allow ballot stuffing, forged ballots, and vote buying.

In the final stretch of the Hungarian parliamentary elections campaign, dozens of voters have discovered their signatures used to support candidates they have never endorsed, nor heard of.

Jozef Roháč, infamous hitman of Hungary’s 1990s criminal underworld admitted responsibility for a series of unsolved bombings that influenced the 1988 elections.

More than half of these statements turned out to be untrue during the recount, no erroneously invalidated votes were found in the respective voting districts.

We asked the police and the constituencies how many prosecutions are pending for forged signatures and which parties were involved in the cases.

With the help of the 20,000 Delegated Poll-Watchers in ‘22 (20k22) group, we have mapped where civil delegates have made...

Several thousands of ’phantom voters’ were a no-show at this year’s elections in Hungary. The war in Ukraine disrupted established...

Several incidents of suspected electoral fraud were recorded by observers during Sunday’s parliamentary elections in various regions of Hungary. Most...