Election

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The event in where people choose between multiple options in a contest, usually politics.

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Elections are a part of the party political system, and a part of the "democratic" system. National elections typically take place every 4-5 years. In many, perhaps most, countries, elections are routinely won by one of just 2-3 large political parties.

Official narrative

Wikipedia writes that elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 1700s.

Concerns

Wikipedia writes that "Scholars argue that the predominance of elections masks the fact that they are actually aristocratic selection mechanisms that deny each citizen an equal chance of holding public office. Such views were expressed as early as the time of Ancient Greece by Aristotle. According to French political scientist Bernard Manin, the non-egalitarian nature of elections stems from four factors: 1) the unequal treatment of candidates by voters, 2) the distinction of candidates required by choice, 3) the cognitive advantage conferred by salience, and 4) the costs of disseminating information. These four factors result in the evaluation of candidates based on voters' partial standards of quality and social saliency (for example, skin color and good looks). This leads to self-selection biases in candidate pools due to non-objective standards of treatment by voters and the costs (barriers to entry) associated with raising one's political profile. Ultimately, the result is the election of candidates who are superior (whether in actuality or as perceived within a cultural context) and objectively unlike the voters they are supposed to represent".

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“I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote… Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.”
Henry David Thoreau

Fraud

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Why Your Vote Didn't Count - AJ+, 2018

Full article: Election/Fraud

• Projex.Wiki: List of ways to rig elections, well over 80 ways.

The Langemann Papers revealed that Le Cercle was active attempting to influence elections in Europe in the 1970s. In 2018, the first Integrity Initiative Leak included a file xCountry.pdf which alphabetically listed the large nation states of Europe, and the US, together with the timing of their next election. Along side most of these countries were a set of people, email address and institutional affiliation. Traditionally, voting systems used paper, and were carried out according to protocols intended to minimize the chance of fraud. In recent years, especially in the US, there has been a push towards more easily defrauded, digital systems.

Interfering

Full article: Integrity Initiative

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Quite a lot of the IfS' activity was carried out under the "Integrity Initiative" label, which carried the stated desire to fight "Russian Propaganda". The director Dan Kaszeta described the group in his "Notes for Israel" as {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Election |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Dan Kaszeta|+sep=, |Has text=“Not just a “think tank” offering yet another discussion forum but also a “do tank”.” |Is about=Election,|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate= |Sourced from=Document: Speaking notes for meetings in Israel |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Document: Speaking notes for meetings in Israel |Has sourceURL= }}“Not just a “think tank” offering yet another discussion forum but also a “do tank”.” He added that "We have good contacts in government in UK and other governments (Argentina, Baltic States, Lithuania, etc.")

The II organised secret "clusters" of like minded people who would follow instructions from London to promote a particular message (the first Integrity Initiative Leak includes a timeline of the groups efforts to interfere in the Spanish government's appointment and thus preventing democratic processes). As with the IfS in general, a Russophobic perpetual war mentality appears to beset the II. One of the main criteria for inclusion in a "cluster" seems to be "awareness" of the "Russian threat". At least one of the documents makes explicit mention of the need to increase military spending. The leaked documents and the II/IfS publications make almost no mention of "peace", seemingly even trying to steer democratic processes even in allied countries of the UK/US.

CIA

The CIA has instigated dozens of covert regime change actions. Later attempts to reign in the CIA failed, but were effective at making its locus of operations more international and therefore harder to detect using the limited resources available to the US government. The US has attempted to overthrow more than 50 national governments, most of them being popular/democratic rather than tyrannical. While bombings with aircraft leave evidence in most cases, covert operations may be difficult to prove.

References

• ArchiveTeam.org: Elections List of elections