Let's play a game

We take it in turn to list a fragment from a law.
Then people guess if it's a law from the US (land of the free and home of the brave), China or Russia.


Here i will start, this should be an easy one:

"[A] public officer, employee, or contractor [...] may not release to the public the number of votes cast in the general election for the office of the president"

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DAm Zahlanzi, she didn't even let you off of ground zero. Snarky crowd...but not me.

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Do you always deliberately miss the point, just wondering.

@zahlanzi said
We take it in turn to list a fragment from a law.
Then people guess if it's a law from the US (land of the free and home of the brave), China or Russia.


Here i will start, this should be an easy one:

"[A] public officer, employee, or contractor [...] may not release to the public the number of votes cast in the general election for the office of the president"

The good old US of A??

@averagejoe1 said
DAm Zahlanzi, she didn't even let you off of ground zero. Snarky crowd...but not me.

Slow down, Joe, you're betraying your ignorance.

@zahlanzi said
We take it in turn to list a fragment from a law.
Then people guess if it's a law from the US (land of the free and home of the brave), China or Russia.


Here i will start, this should be an easy one:

"[A] public officer, employee, or contractor [...] may not release to the public the number of votes cast in the general election for the office of the president"

I would presume most Western democracies.

There are set rules for who can release what information. Employees and contractors are certainly out of bounds. I don’t know what a public officer is.

So, I’ll say US and Russia.
I would presume the Chinese leader is elected by parliament.

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I would presume so.
The role would be more like a chairman or prime minister than an actual president.

@jimmac said
The good old US of A??

It was an easy guess for start 😀 Bonus points if you know what state it is.

@shavixmir said
I would presume most Western democracies.

There are set rules for who can release what information. Employees and contractors are certainly out of bounds. I don’t know what a public officer is.

So, I’ll say US and Russia.
I would presume the Chinese leader is elected by parliament.

"There are set rules for who can release what information"
yeh, but it takes a special kind of "democracy" to set it so nobody can release that information.

There is also a special clause i didn't reveal that would have given it away: nobody can reveal the total number of votes until the electors meet and then they can just tell you the percentages. As in "trust us the percentages are true, no need to verify actual numbers".

@zahlanzi said
"There are set rules for who can release what information"
yeh, but it takes a special kind of "democracy" to set it so nobody can release that information.

There is also a special clause i didn't reveal that would have given it away: nobody can reveal the total number of votes until the electors meet and then they can just tell you the percentages. As in "trust us the percentages are true, no need to verify actual numbers".

Texas?

@kevcvs57 said
Texas?

North Dakota

@handyandy said
Slow down, Joe, you're betraying your ignorance.

Oh that cat jumped out of the bag and ran up the curtains a while back Andy.

@zahlanzi said
We take it in turn to list a fragment from a law.
Then people guess if it's a law from the US (land of the free and home of the brave), China or Russia.


Here i will start, this should be an easy one:

"[A] public officer, employee, or contractor [...] may not release to the public the number of votes cast in the general election for the office of the president"

I don't know if it's true but lots of people are saying it: this post is on point. The US election system demands anonymity of votes and a trust in state governments to run elections as they see fit.