Well… that is a first.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

Well… that is a first. In yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Denmark, painter and provocateur Kristian von Hornsleth tried to bribe voters into voting for the Enhedslisten party.

On his Instagram account he offered artworks for votes if voters photographed their vote, proving that they had indeed voted for Enhedslisten.

Obviously, this is a violation of the Danish penal code and punishable by up to 2 years in prison.

Yesterday, Hornsleth was arrested and charged by Copenhagen Police.

[madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net]

@randahl

Expect him to start whining and claim to be a victim since it all was just an artistic happening in 3....2....1....

[urbanedm@yeg.bike]

@randahl What, they didn't investigate for 3 years before quietly dropping the matter? What kind of democracy is that? /s

[ianto_jones@mastodon.social]

@randahl what's it like living in a country that holds people accountable?

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@randahl Provocation accomplished.

[bltpizza@mastodon.social]

@randahl musk committed this crime multiple times and nothing happens to Nazis in the US when they commit election fraud and voter fraud. Now that the US is an openly corrupt oligarchy pretending to be a democracy the laws are only applied to political enemies regardless of the legitimacy of the claims

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

I'm surprised that 1. there's a jurisdiction that takes vote bribing seriously and 2. there's a fool actually intending to perform such an act in the first place

[leeloo@c.im]

@randahl
Polling places should have a stack of prefilled ballots for photo ops, one with an X at each party (ideally each person), with a large "invalid" stamp on the parts of the ballot that you are not taking a picture of.

Bonus points if they are filled in manually at the polling place, so the X will be different.

That would make it hard enough to prove anything that offering to pay for photos would be useless.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@randahl

What's it like to have a nation of sane laws where those laws are enforced?

[ellenb@mastodon.social]

@randahl And did it help the party at all?

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@randahl sex is great but Schadenfreude can be deliciously better

[beckett@triangletoot.party]

@blogdiva @randahl
Por que no los dos?

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@blogdiva Where I live we often say "Skadefryd er den eneste sanne glede" (Schadenfreude is the only true joy) . A bit harsh, so we usually say it about other people .
@randahl

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@randahl Apologies for not having the bandwidth to track down context, but is said painter on the side of the people, or on the side of fascism? Like, was this a protest of sorts, showing the fragility of a system, or was this just flat out vote buying?