Nomadic clan voting procedures enabled vote manipulation

Evidence

In the municipalities, voters had to be registered on the municipal lists and votes were cast by secret ballot. In the interior where the conditions of nomadic life made this procedure difficult and uncertain, voting took place through traditional clan and clan section assemblies. These meetings passed block lists of votes to the recorders, a procedure which lent itself to manipulation. It was therefore no surprise to find that the total recorded vote was far in excess of what might have been predicted from the estimated strength of the population, although the latter figures themselves were by no means definitive. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 389

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Somali genealogies function as political-legal address systems; Parliamentary voting order materially shapes which outcomes can be coerced — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 91

Related

• The no-confidence vote disproved North-South and clan-based readings of Somali politics. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Somali genealogies function as political-legal address systems #expands (0.55)