[zdimension]

There is a very real risk of political candidates committing political fraud, getting elected thanks to it, and putting pressure on the judiciary branch to lower their chances of getting arrested. We're seeing this exact process happen in real time in the US. Every modern country pretends that nobody is above the law and that bad people will get convicted and get sentences but in real life the government has power over this stuff.

Making ineligibility sentences immediate is a way to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen.

[pc86]

It's also a way for someone to make their own re-election (or the continued control of their party) easier by "putting pressure on the judiciary branch" as you said to find their opponent guilty.

Take the individual parties of today out of it. You don't want the party in power in the government to have the ability to decide who is allowed to run for office. If you actually want to live in a democracy and not just autocracy with your favored party in power, you want the people to decide who runs with as little government input as possible.

A judge saying someone is not allowed to run for office is objectively, by definition, anti-democratic.

> We're seeing this exact process happen in real time in the US.

Last I checked Rosie O'Donnell is only one stupid enough to imply that the latest presidential election was not completely above board.

[andsoitis]

> by "putting pressure on the judiciary branch" as you said to find their opponent guilty.

In a court of law in the US, a jury decides whether someone is guilty or not guilty in criminal cases.

[darthrupert]

> Last I checked Rosie O'Donnell is only one stupid enough to imply that the latest presidential election was not completely above tye board.

The MAGA cult was complaining about it until it became obvious they did not lose the elections.