[dak89]

This is exactly right.

While I think it would be suboptimal you could imagine "rerun the elections if the winner breaks campaign finance law or gets support from abroad" as an established norm in western democracies, but that's not the world we live in and the EU would not accept these shenanigans from a populist right wing government.

[rayiner]

Developed countries never rerun elections because of stuff like that.

[throw_pm23]

You are wrong, the same thing happened in Austria in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Austrian_presidential_ele...

[briandear]

Maybe they should. You can cheat all you want but as long as you win, you win. What’s the point of campaign finance laws if they can be broken with no meaningful consequence? The candidate’s campaign gets a “fine” that they pay out of campaign money anyway. But they still can win.

[soco]

Developed countries have laws which oftentimes are even applied, like exactly in this case. Some HN audience has obviously a very naive understanding of what a "law" is and that "disrespecting the law" can have consequences.

[dak89]

Yes, I think we agree!