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Singularity

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Rigged Election?
« on: December 15, 2008, 04:19:36 pm »
Heheh, I've never seen this happen before.  Makes you wonder if the conservative party fudged the numbers a bit. ::)

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Servant Corps

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Re: Rigged Election?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2008, 04:31:02 pm »
I have been considering that, in the rare event a recount is necessary, there would be a small mini-game where your sleeper lawyer tries to convince the local courts (or the Supreme Court for the Presidency) to decide the recount in the Liberal Party's favor...
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E. Albright

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Re: Rigged Election?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2008, 07:37:02 pm »
...or have your sleeper activist organization go protest and/or shut down parts of the recount to slant things your way...  ;)
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Re: Rigged Election?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2008, 09:12:25 pm »
Hm. The book I had about the Flordia recount, "Politics by Other Means", didn't mention that 'riot' at all. Must be a pretty lame book then.

...Still, even if you disrupt a recount, if the courts are all Elite Liberal, they'll just rule for the recounts to be done again and again until the Liberal Party wins. Conversly, if the courts are Arch-Conservative, they'll just rule for the recounts to be done again and again until the Conservative Party wins. So disruption really wouldn't work in the long term. :P

(((EDIT: Oh dear. I really hope I didn't hurt any feelings. It is just my belief, due to experience, that the court system is pretty powerful indeed, and that the courts decide. Just all. It's not that hard to code in having an experienced Citizens' Group go out and suppress recount results. But, I personally believe it is the courts that eventually decide who win recounts.)))
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E. Albright

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Re: Rigged Election?
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2008, 02:15:39 am »
No, no, I generally concur. 2000 certainly didn't teach us to expect anything else in such situations.

But the trick with recount manipulation would be to quickly and public make it no longer a "recounty" situation, so there'd be a "clear winner" and the courts would be at least less likely to call against them. Or conversely, the court calling FOR the manipulators would look that much more legit.
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Re: Rigged Election?
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2008, 02:23:16 am »
Quote from: Servant Corps on December 15, 2008, 09:12:25 pm
Hm. The book I had about the Flordia recount, "Politics by Other Means", didn't mention that 'riot' at all. Must be a pretty lame book then.

It achieved a certain infamy, especially for the photo reproduced in the WaPo link. However, its infamy as a production rather than a happening was most loudly heard in the more wonkish portions of the media, so it's not necessarily horrifically well-known. But given how a fine RL example of politically staged-managed "concerned citizen" action it is, I couldn't help but mention it here.
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