Anyone remember this classic meme from three elections back?
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It seems we're doing it again. The voters for the party associated with Talossa's infamous sex pest (https://wiki.talossa.com/Law:61RZ13_Sense_of_the_Ziu:_A_First_Step_Towards_Decency) - never seen outside of election time! - are literally copy-pasting their votes (https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?msg=38506).
The public ballot encourages this "Attack of the Clones" stuff, which degrades democracy. But the conservative tradition in Talossa has never really rated democracy so highly. They like things like the public ballot - and oppose things like party lists - because it's easier and more "fun" to take short-cuts around rigorous democratic practice.
Remember - before the ancestors of the URL came into the Kingdom and established democratic reforms like the secret ballot and the party list - these people ran Talossa for nine terms of absolute majority government, because these anti-democratic features favour the incumbent. They yearn to get back to those days.
We've got two parties coming out of the RUMP tradition that democracy doesn't matter because it's not "quirky and fun" enough; one anarchist party; and one absolute monarchist party. The URL are the only party in this election which rigorously supports democracy.
If I have seats in the next Ziu, I will campaign vigorously for universal secret ballot. We probably even need to bring back discussion of the Real Cosa and the unicameral Ziu again. As we've seen in the monarchy debate, you can't reach a compromise with the "democracy-optional" post-RUMP tendency. You have to defeat them fair and square.