On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Kees van Eeten wrote to mark lewis:

 KvE>  The Nodelist is sometimes used as a list of sysops whoe are
 KvE> entitled to  vote on Fidonet subjects. With als these ghost
 KvE> systems in teh nodelist there  can never be a fair vote.

i'm not going to comment on each of your statements but i will on this one...
yes... you are correct... it is also possible that similar tacticts have been
used in elections in the past...

)\/(ark