Election review: Dismissal of complaints via reference to rapporteur's letter and refusal of expense reimbursement under § 34a Abs. 3 BVerfGG

The German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) dismissed two election review complaints and rejected the applicants' requests for reimbursement of necessary expenses. The dispute concerned alleged irregularities in election results, which the challengers sought to remedy through constitutional election review. The court relied on the doctrine of reference to the rapporteur's letter, finding that the grounds outlined in the preliminary response of May 3, 2024, rendered the complaints unmeritorious and that the appellants' subsequent arguments did not warrant a different assessment. Consequently, pursuant to § 24 sentence 2 of the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfGG), the court abstained from a further substantive justification. The claims for cost reimbursement were denied because the statutory prerequisites under § 34a paragraph 3 BVerfGG were not met.