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Point being there is no moral mandate on such a thin margin of the minority who voted when there were laws broken in the campaign finance, the claims made and s
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Point being there is no moral mandate on such a thin margin of the minority who voted when there were laws broken in the campaign finance, the claims made and so forth.
At least elections have the veneer of election law behind them. Referendum nations have a similar veneer behind referenda - to decide whether it was fairly arrived at, etc. Switzerland not long threw out a result because the electorate had been given some sort of misleading information in the campaign.
- nailer 7y agoWell we lost by something like 1.5 million people. Overturning the referendum result because of campaign finance law seems somewhat excessive.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoPerhaps so, but I think it would be better to have had those parameters established beforehand, and where the limits of what was considered fair under law were. Maybe people could consider it settled even if they didn't like the result Anything would be better than how we did do it, really. :)