French parliamentary deputies themselves documented egregious vote-stuffing in Algeria.

Evidence

Even in France voices (not only of the Left) were raised against the electoral fraud in Algeria; in a letter of 14 April 1949 to the Minister of the Interior, one M.R.P. deputy, Fonlupt-Esperaber, reported an incident where, although voting ended at ten-thirty, one of my M.R.P. colleagues from Algiers was invited to leave the polling centre at 10.45, but returned there a quarter of an hour later, because it was snowing, and observed that whereas at the moment of his departure the electoral list contained only some ten entries, it contained one hundred and ninety-four on his return. Having stood in the doorway of the polling centre throughout this quarter of an hour, he avouched that no one had entered. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 213

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: France rigged the 1948 Algerian Assembly elections by stuffing ballot boxes; France rigged the 1948 Algerian elections by fraud and violence.; The 1948 Algerian Assembly elections were systematically rigged by the French administration. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 213 (+2 more)

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