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This election is already a sham since some opposition candidates were illegally prevented from participating in it.
by Grue3 7y ago
This election is already a sham since some opposition candidates were illegally prevented from participating in it.
- cameronbrown 7y agoSo more manipulation is better?
- rebuilder 7y agoThink of the possible outcomes: -Status quo, old voting system. Corrupt process with vote results that remain in force. Nothing changes. -Novel, manipulated system where the regime loses the vote. The vote gets overturned because it's illegitimate in the wrong way. Maybe embarrassing to the authorities?
- jplayer01 7y agoMeddling with foreign elections is the quickest way to create inner turmoil and conflict. Instead of busying themselves with creating a functioning democracy, you've just created an illegitimate system which will be destroyed from the inside-out, while provoking hate for the meddling party. I don't see the upside here unless you intend to (and are able to) keep it a secret for forever or unless turmoil and suffering is your goal.
- neom 7y agoMosaddegh is a great example of this. Iran is a huge issue today because of meddling in the 50s.
- rebuilder 7y agoI think we're talking about very different things. I'm thinking of hacktivists exploiting a bug in a stupid system to expose the flaws in it. You seem to be thinking of some kind of attempted coup.
- jplayer01 7y agoThere's a difference between people exposing a bug and publishing it, revealing the flaws inherent in the implemented voting system, and people finding a bug and using it to manipulate the vote directly, then revealing the manipulation to 'overturn' the vote. Which ties into what I said earlier. It's going to cause a crisis and it can be used to spin a narrative about how they're under attack from the West and/or America, further cementing their hold on power. Really, there are so many things that can and have gone wrong in attempts to mess with elections that I just don't see the benefit for anybody.
- cat199 7y agoHey, don't complain - if it worked when the Germans sent Lenin over with a train full of gold, it can work again!
- cameronbrown 7y agoI'm going to play devil's advocate here: It may be a corrupt system, but who's to say the next won't be worse? Far more people are going to die in the civil conflict that'll occur if Putin is displaced. The evil you know, etc..
- yongjik 7y ago> The vote gets overturned because it's illegitimate in the wrong way. ...and it's house cleaning time, because the Enemy of the State(TM) was identified and it was caught red-handed stealing the national election! The dictator can name whoever he wants as the Enemy of the State(TM), sending a few choice persons to path of exile or worse, and the public will eat it up, because their country is under attack! Just think about what 9/11 did to Bush's support rating.
- BubRoss 7y agoWhere did you get that from?
- equalunique 7y ago>some opposition candidates were illegally prevented from participating in it Can you provide a source for that?