Over-fulfilling bureaucratic requirements can itself become campaign strategy

Evidence

Instead of the required one hundred signatures in blue ink, Yasmin gathered five hundred, in the event that if the committee disqualified any, she would have more than enough replacements. (This turned out to be a good campaign strategy, getting her campaign noticed.) She made sure that everything else about the application was also perfect, leaving the committee no choice but to accept her in the race. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the strategic over-compliance common in legally adversarial settings — cf. ‘institutional entrepreneurship’ literatures on procedural gamesmanship.