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Ah, computerized highschool class elections. I could have rigged the vote to win at my school too, except that I wasn't in the right cliques. It would have be
by RandomBacon 8y ago
Ah, computerized highschool class elections.
I could have rigged the vote to win at my school too, except that I wasn't in the right cliques. It would have been very suspicious if I won, and everyone knew I was "good with computers".
Our program actually saved who voted for who in plaintext. At least I got to see who voted for me.
- veryworried 8y agoIn a situation like this the best action is to install a puppet who you can blackmail. Then use them to push policies you find favorable to you.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI don't think student governments get to push policies that can actually help students very much. I don't think school administrations let the student government have any real control whatsoever.
- InitialLastName 8y agoIt's a puppet puppet. IIRC, my high school government was very effective at choosing the prom theme and lobbying for a specific brand of crackers in one of the vending machines.
- nathancahill 8y agoThe illusion of government power starts young.
- erobbins 8y agoGovernment seems pretty powerful. I mean, there's one guy elected by 213k people blocking the entire congress from passing any bills.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoThat may make that one guy powerful, but it makes government pretty powerless...
- archgoon 8y agoUnless of course, you're dealing with a Absurdly Powerful Student Council. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlyPowerful...
- gwbas1c 8y agoJoke: Like Trump and the rumored pee-pee tape? (Sorry, couldn't resist!)