Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

With enough controls on media it's quite possible that 90%+ election results are sometimes real.

Imagine if instead of splitting into Democrat and Republican, there were just a single Property Party and the only opposition was communists. If Property partisans controlled most of the media plus orders of magnitude more campaign funding it's possible they'd win ridiculous majorities without rigging.

platzapS has issued a correction as of 12:39 on May 23, 2017

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

Or say you're opposition but you think you're in the minority, you might just not bother voting if you don't trust the ballot to be secret. Especially if Dear Leader has concentrated polling stations in pro-supporter neighborhoods and it would take hours to cast a ballot. There are plenty of ways to influence elections that aren't outright fraud.

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

Jose posted:

check out the recent Falkland islands referendum

LOL 1,513 to 3, for a solid 99.8% victory.

(PS I'm the one person who couldn't figure out the ballot)

  • Locked thread