20: The rigged JFK election
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Is There a Tom Scott in Equity?
Some of our political parties have very similar aims to each other. I think this happened like one or two US elections ago that they ran someone deliberately in one of the seats that had almost the same name as someone who was outgoing. That is exactly why they picked a janitor. He had the exact same name and they were trying to split the vote. And they were just trying to sneak it, screw over another Joe Rosso. So what? There were two Joe Russo's on the ballot. Yeah, they found him in a phone book. It really seems like there would be rules that would have to make them separate a little bit more. But I'm almost certain there will already be
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