Part of my score for the Global Business Project competition is based on a public vote for who has the best case study (my group's is on Tesla in China). Even though my group was close to first for most of the voting, we were knocked back to fourth at the last minute. While I believe many of the Chinese students were just told to vote so picked someoje, that still dosn't explan the fact that the top four groups got more votes than there are students at Juniata (the top three got more votes than total anything at Juniata). I heard this is because some groups actually paid 0.25RMB per vote! Seeing thr voting patterns (the number of votes jumped by 400 in a matter of minutes once), I would belive this. While I want to win, I don't want to drop any coin for this. I guess that is Chinese elections though. I am thinking of pulling a Jill Stien tomorrow by contesting the election, I want to see what my group says first though. I don't think there is anything in the rules preventing students from buying votes though.
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Dad
12/7/2016 02:31:57 am
Classic case of buying votes. Interesting, though, that in most authoritarian regimes, the voting itself is "fair" and unimpeded. The only problem is that there is basically no choice of candidates. Buying votes is a more of a way to alter a democratic vote
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