• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    215 hours ago

    less legitimate than an election with higher turnout.

    Yes. But in practice, the government doesn’t care about that. Why would they?

    • @galanthus
      link
      113 hours ago

      You know, they had elections in the soviet union. And you had two options, vote for the candidate(there was only one) and spoil the ballot(not an official option, clearly).

      If enough people spoiled the ballot, a new candidate could be indroduced, but this is infrequent and irrelevant.

      Riddle me this, why have elections if you have only one candidate on the ballot? What is the point of having mock elections in dictatorships, with fake numbers?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        013 hours ago

        Cool, but fun fact, we only may have just become a dictator ship with trump. Before that at least, we weren’t one. You’re ignoring primaries.