Agreed. If a corporation's board of directors gave out free shares of the company to anyone who asked for them, and then those new shareholders voted the way t

Agreed. If a corporation's board of directors gave out free shares of the company to anyone who asked for them, and then those new shareholders voted the way the board liked, over-riding the opinion of the original shareholders, a crime would have been committed. When it's a country, it's legal...or at least not punished. See: CA and single party rule.