Thank you for your vote for Hugo de Jonge – Accountants:...

The party leader election at the CDA was so full of shortcomings that the party board could have designated ‘anything but a winner’. Two chartered accountants conclude this in a letter to the CDA board. The letter is in the hands of the political editors of RTL News.

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The letter has been in the possession of the board since the end of August, but it has not been publicized. The party leader election had to end because malicious parties could automatically cast false votes. In the elections that followed, voters were found to receive thank-yous for a vote for a candidate they had not voted for. The party board commissioned a flash investigation into these irregularities by ICT bureau CGI. That concluded within a day that Hugo de Jonge was the rightful winner of the study.

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The chartered accountants mince the results of that investigation in their letter. The anonymous chartered accountants whose names are known to the editors are, according to RTL News, ‘concerned citizens’ who have investigated the CGI report that is online. They are not CDA members and they see it as their ‘moral duty’ to share their findings.

For example, they are concerned that one person carried out the design, construction, testing and support of the ICT tool that arranged the digital election. According to them, this is ‘a very serious shortcoming’. “It means that there are no guarantees in the organization to ensure reliable outcomes,” they write.

The CDA says in a response:

“We are familiar with this letter and answered it at the time. All substantive comments were already known and were part of discussions in the board and with the top candidates. The independent investigation conducted by us answers the questions asked and confirms that no major irregularities were found that would have had an impact on the outcome of the vote. We also gave this response when publishing the independent investigation on 26 August. ”

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