[st-keller]

Why is this flagged? „How a democracy was hacked“ is not something that should be on Hacker News?

[hagbard_c]

For the same reason other political articles are flagged, politics is not supposed to be a significant part of the discourse on this site. While it is not possible to keep out all things political, articles like this one do not lend themselves to much else besides political mud slinging. Even though that can be an amusing pastime this is not the place for such, by decree.

[sofixa]

This is purely history. If there are modern parallels to be found, that's just one of the ways history is useful, but still not "politics".