<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:59 PM, carlo von lynX <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lynX@pirate.my.buttharp.org" target="_blank">lynX@pirate.my.buttharp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Yes, in exchange everybody knows about it so they can question you for<br></div>
that and decide to stop you from making a career in politics by not<br>
electing you etc etc<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, the actual candidate might perfectly have nothing to do with it. For example the candidate might just want to lower the taxes on the rich because he really thinks that is the best for society... and then the rich people, independently, might buy the votes of the poor people just because that candidate's ideas benefit them.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Yes, but that is not how corruption works. If he is motivated to do you</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
a favor and nobody will hold him accountable for that, it may be a good<br>
investment for you to just try to make him feel good about you. In real<br>
parliaments corruption happens by secret vote.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh, but it actually works that way. You should study the history of Spain (I am spanish) in the XIX century and you would see why now, for official government elections, we have secret vote and why those who count the votes are normal citizens elected randomly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And of course, it's a very different thing to want secret vote for representatives and for citizens.</div></div></div></div>