The claim
Photos from a live stream of the French elections are said to prove electoral fraud as Le Pen suddenly had fewer votes.
Our conclusion
The TV station actually showed incorrect numbers at times during the live stream, which were later corrected. The real figures can be found on the website of the French Ministry of the Interior.
In Schleswig-Holstein last Sunday, the AfD did not get over the 5 percent hurdle, which is why it will not be represented in the local state parliament.
That's why many comments post two photos that are supposed to prove that there was also electoral fraud in France, which has now been repeated in the federal state. But the alleged election fraud was demonstrably a mistake on the part of the TV station.
The alleged election fraud in France
There are several screenshots and photos of the numbers that a French TV station showed on the evening of the runoff between Macron and Le Pen, here is just one example, which also shows the times when the numbers were shown on TV:

While at 9:10 p.m. 13,899 votes were still shown for Le Pen, giving her 202 more votes than Macron, the number apparently changed at 10:45 p.m., because at that point she suddenly only had 11,558 votes, while Macron's votes became more.
Provably false numbers on TV
In fact, there is no manipulation of the various photos; the TV station actually broadcast these numbers. The TV station also publicly admitted that it had given incorrect numbers and justified it as follows:
“Due to a computer error, we displayed incorrect numbers on France 2's election night on Sunday April 24th.
Source: Twitter
We apologize to our viewers for this. Here are some explanations: Journalists Johanna Ghiglia and Jean-Baptiste Marteau commented live on the results of the second round of the presidential elections.
At 9:10 p.m. the screen showed 14.2 million votes for Emmanuel Macron and 14.4 million votes for Marine Le Pen.
The software that allows the broadcaster to display Interior Ministry data counted the votes twice in some communities for the two candidates. This error was immediately identified and later corrected. The Interior Ministry never attributed 14 million votes to Marine Le Pen. According to the final results, Emmanuel Macron has a total of 18.7 million votes, while Marine Le Pen has 13.2 million votes.”
But stubborn people will definitely not want to believe this explanation. Is there any evidence that the TV station really just showed the wrong numbers? There is, because, as you write in the tweet, the data comes directly from the Ministry of the Interior and is then evaluated using software for display on TV.
Wayback Machine can be used to call up several real-time figures, as can be seen on the website of the Ministry of the Interior, from which the TV station got the data.
Accordingly, the official numbers looked at 9:42 p.m .:
At this time, 58 percent of the votes had been counted. Macron had 9.7 million votes, Le Pen had around 8.7 million votes. Macron already had more votes at this point, but both had fewer votes overall than shown in the live stream, which shows that the software was already evaluating the data incorrectly at this point.
At 10:45 p.m. the TV station showed 11,558,051 votes for Le Pen. Now let's look at the numbers saved in the Wayback Machine at 10:32 p.m.:
Now the numbers on TV are very close to the real numbers, the small difference is of course due to the time difference of 13 minutes: Le Pen had 11.3 million votes at the time, Macron 13.7 million votes. The numbers were actually corrected during the live stream.
Conclusion
In the end, Macron won the election with a clear 58 percent . The TV station actually showed incorrect numbers at times during the live stream, which were later corrected. The broadcaster also communicated this to the outside world, and a check of the Interior Ministry's figures confirmed the information.
There is therefore no alleged election fraud, just an error on the part of the TV station.
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