“Russia uses the same tricks to constrain participatory democracy as Florida or Texas.”
Now imagine Texas is the entirety of US, where
in some very specific cities you get over 100% participation rate where everybody votes for incumbent whereas the rest of them have like 30-40% with expected vote distribution to boot.
Oh, and “electronic voting” (via the internet) where the incumbent always gets 90% of the votes with no way to verify the results.
None of the participants are actually independent, and the ones that were are now either jailed or killed.
And you have no way to protest the results, because
it’s against the law (despite the law contradicting constitution)
the protest will get immediately shut down by the police
every organizer will get jailed
And no, courts will not help. They will always side the government. No matter how ridiculous the accusations are.
That’s Russia.
Edit: Forgot to mention that out electoral system is more straightforward, so it doesn’t allow for gerrymandering. So it’s not even distribution manipulation it’s straight up the half of bulletins are fake.
Gerrymandering is manipulation of electoral results using differently drawn district maps. Russia doesn’t use districts to decide winners in each one. Instead, all of the votes are combined. Think of it as a one massive district. Whoever gets majority in that one district wins the elections. In this system votes are always proportionate to electorate, therefore gerrymandering cannot physically happen.
Instead, Russia’s incumbent uses other ways of electoral fraud. Main ones I have already listed.
“Russia uses the same tricks to constrain participatory democracy as Florida or Texas.”
Now imagine Texas is the entirety of US, where
And no, courts will not help. They will always side the government. No matter how ridiculous the accusations are.
That’s Russia.
Edit: Forgot to mention that out electoral system is more straightforward, so it doesn’t allow for gerrymandering. So it’s not even distribution manipulation it’s straight up the half of bulletins are fake.
Over half of Trump’s cabinet is from Florida
That’s absolutely false
That’s not the point
Explain how.
Gerrymandering is manipulation of electoral results using differently drawn district maps. Russia doesn’t use districts to decide winners in each one. Instead, all of the votes are combined. Think of it as a one massive district. Whoever gets majority in that one district wins the elections. In this system votes are always proportionate to electorate, therefore gerrymandering cannot physically happen.
Instead, Russia’s incumbent uses other ways of electoral fraud. Main ones I have already listed.