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That's not the same thing at all. That is just someone with the same name as some celeb. The celeb is not running in the elections. What is discussed in the art
by ABoredBirb 5y ago
That's not the same thing at all. That is just someone with the same name as some celeb. The celeb is not running in the elections.
What is discussed in the article are fake candidates with the same (changed) name (and appearance) as an actual candidate, in order to confuse voters and leech votes away from the actual candidate.
- sireat 5y agoAgreed the practice is not as despicable as the St. Petersburg case. (amazing city btw) Still the question is would this person be running in the election were their name not a match or similar to someone publicly known. These names usually appear in the middle of the list - so are unlikely to be major players themselves. I looked through our local candidate lists and found more suspicious cases. There are instances of not complete matches but things like a security guard from a populist party with the same uncommon last name as the prime minister at a time. Could be pure coincidence but I doubt it.