Do elections expose weak states to too much foreign influence?
By Jon Haron-Feiertag An old advent of politics, not a new oneelections have long been an essential feature of government. Today elections are considered to be synonymous with democratic office. Perception is more myth than maxim as they were once associated with monarchy to the exclusion of all else. Though times have changed the infirmities accompanying elections have not. The process incumbent to elections has always offered strengths and weaknesses to governments. They have long been correlated with endless schemes, controversies, intrigues, and were judged to be as much a boon to governments as they have their bane. Because of these dangers, the organization of elections was not a course lightly set out upon. History is replete with examples of electoral disasters. The most famous episodes are old, though not obsolete. The Pope, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Polish Kingeach was decided by a college of electors. Elections proved the vehicle for unceasing interference and injury by ou
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