Isn’t that just… campaigning?

The line between campaigning and bribery is thin

If pastries are enough to swing voters we have bigger problems.

The question is where the line between campaigning and bribery is, because it truly has not been made clear.

Probably depends on the context. The way I see it it works like this.

“You can have these pastries if you agree to vote for me” = Bribe

“Come to our campaign event, we will have snacks” = Not a Bribe

There seems to be a lot of other controversy around this campaign/candidate but buying coffee, tea, and six cinnamon rolls from the establishment hosting your event for the people coming to the event seems like an incredibly low threshold for bribery.

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It’s pretty funny that if you did this to scale it probably would work. Most local votes people have absolutely no fucking clue who the names are for many positions. If you simply were remembered as “that person who gave me a chocolate eclair” you’d probably win by landslide without ever doing any campaigning lmfao

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