[EM] secret ballots and proxy voting

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 04/09/2013 04:01 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

> You can make up complicated scenarios that bear no resemblance to what
> would actually happen, and scare yourself with them.
>
> The Mafia is just another interest group. Attempting to apply
> large-scale coercion tends to piss people off. They don't want that. No,
> classic corruption goes after a power node, a focus of substantial
> power. So ... does the Mafia in New York threaten City Council members?

Isn't that just what a protection racket is - large-scale coercion? It 
seems to work for the Mafia, inasmuch as they're still being involved in 
protection rackets... and the presence of organizations like Addiopizzo 
seems to show that they are.