Why do election takes place in non democratic countries?
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All non democratic countries also want to be called democratic. Therefore election take place in non-democratic countries.
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From his first election in 1998, Hugo Chávez valued the legitimacy of receiving a mandate from the people in electoral contests. Although these elections became increasingly unfair, using ventajismo to give unfair advantages to the governing party, the integrity of the vote count was achieved with the implementation of the automated voting system. Electoral guarantees included the participation of all of the political parties in audits and controls to be able to validate the results of the election. The results of the election were in turn respected, and the candidates who won were allowed to take office.
Beginning in 2016, with Nicolás Maduro in power, the government changed the basic rules of the game dramatically when the CNE suspended the constitutional right to petition for a recall referendum and postponed the regional elections. Then in 2017 the government held a vote for an entity of questionable constitutional legitimacy – the ANC, and for the first time did not even bother to follow the rule of “one citizen, one vote” in its formulas to elect representatives to the ANC. With the opposition boycotting, the government was free to invent numbers and relax the automatic voting system, with only the technical advisory company of Smartmatic capable of denouncing the results.
The October 2017 regional elections further signaled that the government was willing to resort to more explicitly fraudulent and repressive measures to hold onto power. First, the Maduro government refused to install the winner of an election for the first time since the inception of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999. Both Chávez and Maduro had at one point or another usurped the power of elected bodies by naming parallel authorities or removed officials based on (dubious) allegations of electoral fraud. But when the government ousted the announced governor-elect of Zulia because he refused to participate in a swearing-in ceremony before the ANC, it went a step further and openly flouted the voters’ will.
Second, the government appeared to engage in manipulation of the vote count for the first time in a regularly scheduled contested election (not counting the July ANC vote). Until now, most of the demonstrated voting irregularities were aimed at influencing those who voted and how they did so, but the voting machines withstood audits measuring the integrity of their count. On October 15 in the state of Bolívar, at least 11 voting machine results were entered by hand, rather than electronically transmitted, appearing to change the winner in that state race.
Given this scenario, are elections still worthwhile? In an electoral authoritarian regime, which holds manipulated elections to claim a democratic legitimacy while ensuring that the incumbent will win, the game is a two-level one. Opponents must participate in each election, with the chance they might overwhelm the manipulations and actually win, while also working to change the rules of the larger political game.