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#61

Any elections could not realistically take place without sparking further violence against vote-counters.
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#62

(04-12-2015, 07:26 PM)Darkstrait Wrote: Any elections could not realistically take place without sparking further violence against vote-counters.

Why would there be violence against vote-counters?
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#63

Because your country is still in chaos.
Let's say you actually manage to scrape together a group of organizers and vote-counters, and a person gets elected with, say, 60% of the vote. The other 40% is gonna be pretty grumpy, and there will be some in that group that claim that the vote was stacked. And within that group there will be some that will use violence against vote counters.
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#64

RL examples of what Dark just said: Post-Gaddafi Libya, Egypt, Afganistan, etc.


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#65

*looks surprised*
I mean... um, yeah, I totally heard of all of those and was referencing them, and not in any way was saying it because it sounded like something that could sorta maybe happen. Smile
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#66

I'm still invading your country!
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#67

(04-13-2015, 05:42 PM)Darkstrait Wrote: Because your country is still in chaos.
Let's say you actually manage to scrape together a group of organizers and vote-counters, and a person gets elected with, say, 60% of the vote. The other 40% is gonna be pretty grumpy, and there will be some in that group that claim that the vote was stacked. And within that group there will be some that will use violence against vote counters.

Of course more likely the winning candidates has less than 50% of the vote between all the factions, in which case you still have the majority of the country unhappy and with unrest already soaring and several of those factions already previously openly revolted very recently.

Going of your own statistics the main two parties only have about the support of about a third of the population each, with a large ideological gap between them and large numbers of radical factions that lean towards either side. No matter how an election went somewhere between a half and two-thirds of the population would be unhappy, and that's assuming you even get a half the population to actually participate in the elections (between all the unrest and probably some groups boycotting that'd be difficult). You'll have calls of vote stacking, some parliamentary groups refusing to participate...
#68

The vote is cancelled anyways.


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#69

What do you mean, Punchwood?
We'll bring the full might of the SSU and the SCO around on you. You'll be up against the largest combined alliance ever seen.
Bring it.
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#70

Not just them, but nonaligned nations too. You have about... A snowball's chance in hell of succeeding?


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