> Blackmail doesn’t scale.
If elections in my district are historically won by a 10-20% margin, and my corporation directly employs 20% of the people in the district, then I think I could make blackmail scale just fine.
If elections in my district are historically won by a 10-20% margin, and my corporation directly employs 20% of the people in the district, then I think I could make blackmail scale just fine.
Yes.
> Do you think you can reliably get away with that?
Robber barons did reliably get away with it throughout the nineteenth century. That's the whole reason that you don't get to take a copy of your ballot home today.
> It’s totally unrealistic
Well, somebody forgot to tell reality.
My ballot gets mailed to my house. I fill it out in my kitchen.