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> Nobody's voting in China as far as I know They vote from an approved list of candidates, but the following makes it sound as if, in principle anyway, there o
by 082349872349872 2y ago
> Nobody's voting in China as far as I know
They vote from an approved list of candidates, but the following makes it sound as if, in principle anyway, there ought to be enough voting to keep the better apparatchiks and bounce the worse ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China#Direct_elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China#Direct_elec...
tl;dr: lots of voting; no ballot access
EDIT: meanwhile, over on https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國選舉 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國選舉 we find the Party line:
> 《人民日報》称，中国大陸的基层换届选举是世界上规模最大的基层民主选举。
("The People's Daily* says the grass-roots general elections in mainland China are the largest [900 million voters] grass-roots democratic elections in the world.")
* http://www.people.com.cn http://www.people.com.cn
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