Thread:2001:D08:D9:1292:592D:AFBF:D26D:642C/@comment-45.56.153.226-20181211115923/@comment-45.56.153.228-20181211195816

North Korea is a democracy and not only can you vote for someone else, you do it secretly and they can't tell who voted for whom

Voting is done by secret ballot and there is no special booth for voting for someone who isn't on the printed ballot

Democracy in the DPRK works differently than liberal democracy in the West

The democracy happens prior to the writing of the ballot when an alliance of several activist organizations hold “mass meetings” where they debate and nominate candidates to represent their district and when they have decided at that mass meeting who to put on the ballot, the people confirm or deny that decision with a yes or no

If more than 50% of the North Korean people in that district say no on the ballot, then obviously the democratic nature of that meeting had failed and must be redone

That is why most officials elected receive high majorities of the vote

Not because they will be killed for not voting the right way

This is real life, not some fiction where a cartoonishly evil dictator holds elections but kills people for voting the wrong way

Why wouldn't you just not let them vote if you do that? It's stupid