{"id":243208,"date":"2021-09-26T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T07:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=243208"},"modified":"2021-09-27T06:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:27:22","slug":"german-television-station-gives-national-election-results-two-days-before-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=243208","title":{"rendered":"German Television Station Gives National Election Results Two Days Before the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nevin Brown \u2013 Sputnik International Sept 24, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>ARD, a German public television station, erroneously aired the results of the national election two days early.<\/p>\n<p>The debacle occurred during the airing of the quiz show \u201cGefragt, gejagt\u201d, which translates to \u201cAsked, hunted,\u201d when a banner popped up on the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the banner, the Union parties would get 22.1%, the Social Democratic Party 22.7%, the Alternative for Germany 10.5%, and the Free Democratic Party 13.2% of the vote in Germany\u2019s national election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Heute ist Freitag, der 24.09.2021. M\u00fcssen wir beunruhigt sein, wenn bei <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gefragtgejagt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gefragtgejagt<\/a> in der <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ARD<\/a> bereits Hochrechnungen zur Bundestagswahl durchs Bild laufen? \ud83e\udd14<br \/>Wissen die schon wieder mehr als wir? \ud83e\udd2b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4YkYg5hTah\">pic.twitter.com\/4YkYg5hTah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Der Online-Wunschbrunnen (@_wunschbrunnen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_wunschbrunnen\/status\/1441442828832419840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ARD took down the banner before the results for the Left and the Greens were displayed. The incident occurred on Friday, with the election set for Sunday. ARD wasted little time soothing concerns of a predetermined election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Holger Lichtenth\u00e4ler, head of the ARD broadcasting, explained the prescient banner. \u201cIt was a technical test of the election crawl that was supposed to be done in the inactive broadcasting area in preparation for election Sunday, but went on air due to a switching error. It was an accident for which we apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ARD has to hope that the election results don\u2019t align too closely to their \u2018early results\u2019, or else questions will start to be asked. As the blooper was occurring, the contestants on the quiz show were asked, &#8220;Which goblin with red hair did Hans Clarin voice for decades?&#8221; The answer, of course, is Pumuckl, the mischievous kobold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20210924\/german-television-station-gives-national-election-results-two-days-before-the-election-1089386768.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slip-up raises questions as to whether the results of the German 2021 elections will be as questionable as the U.S. presidential election was in Nov. 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243212,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243208\/revisions\/243212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}