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Four out of five Parisian polling stations we visited let us vote in the Socialist Party’s primary without any proof of registration.

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BuzzFeed France has been testing the voting systems in a few parties’ primaries, and here’s where it gets even more bonkers.

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Last month, a BuzzFeed France reporter managed to vote twice without any problem in the first round of the Socialist Party’s primary.

Two journalists from Le Monde had the same experience. BuzzFeed France also succeeded in voting in the Green Party's primary under two fictitious names. (Neither party is within reach of winning the general election — and the right-wing parties have had their ballots on lock — but it's still a big problem.)

After the first round of voting, Thomas Clay, the Socialist Party official responsible for organizing the primary, admitted there were “minor and marginal incidents” in the voting process, “like in all elections.”

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The ballot cast in the investigation was left blank in each case, so as not to influence the final result. And we sent the same reporter — the author of this story — as in the first round to carry out this renewed investigation.

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