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Governance Theater
Entry #0940
Why turnout is celebrated when the outcome was never in doubt
Publicising high participation in a foregone vote borrows the legitimacy of democracy while the result, fixed by concentrated holdings, was never actually contestable.
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The hidden part
#0940
Turnout means legitimacy only if the vote could go either way. Celebrating it in a foregone result decorates a settled outcome.