• qevlarr
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      8 months ago

      The voting process is that all other serious contenders are thrown in prison and/or killed, international observers aren’t safe to verify the result, protests are forbidden, armed soldiers go door to door, and nobody trusts the secrecy of the vote

      Have you noticed there’s an armed soldier inside the voting station?

      • @ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        08 months ago

        Yes I haven’t seen the very visible soldier

        Circlejerk so powerful asking a question is seen as being fucking blind now apparently

        • qevlarr
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          28 months ago

          Ask stupid question, get stupid answer 🤷‍♂️

          Ballot secrecy only works if everyone is convinced their votes are secret and they won’t be punished for a “wrong” vote. It doesn’t matter if they can’t or won’t punish you, what matters is that people are afraid to cast an honest vote. Thus the vote is compromised, regardless of the mechanics of elections in a dictatorship.

          It’s all a sham, it doesn’t make one iota of difference what’s on that piece of paper in a transparent box. That soldier is what this whole scene is about. That’s not a circlejerk, it’s being able to distinguish important from unimportant. You’re seeing straight up voter intimidation and your response is “I wonder if this is the actual ballot or an attendance sheet” lol

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      48 months ago

      there’s a box in background, and they did actually go house to house irrc.

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        8 months ago

        Not doubting that

        Just wondering how secret the actual ballot is

        In some countries you can put a soldier there and they wouldn’t be able to tell who you voted for

        I see in the box it seems to be just a folded A4 sheet and you can tell most of them