▲ 197 ▼ Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by FelixCress@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (1 child) lol hold on, did one of their bot candidates accidentally win or something…? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) No but when people can't vote directly for Farage, they vote for their local Reform candidate. It looks like Reform has just been self-nominating candidates that didn't even do any campaigning and may or may not even exist, so that gullible people could vote for their local candidate, and gain a higher percentage of seats for Reform, even if not the outright winner permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) How is this legal? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago It really really isn't permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) No but when people can't vote directly for Farage, they vote for their local Reform candidate. It looks like Reform has just been self-nominating candidates that didn't even do any campaigning and may or may not even exist, so that gullible people could vote for their local candidate, and gain a higher percentage of seats for Reform, even if not the outright winner permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) How is this legal? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago It really really isn't permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) How is this legal? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago It really really isn't permalink fedilink source parent