Jack of Harts

Election day came on San Santiago. The news had spent four years telling everybody how much of a fraud and a Communist sympathizer the illegitimate President was, so of course the good people of their planet would vote him out. But one poll after another showed that millions of citizens had gone out to vote for the man anyways. Many even dared to say that the news was wrong about his Communist leanings. He was winning in the reported counts. But the bureaucrats were prepared. They halted the counting in several key districts after people went to bed, brought boxes of votes out from under tables and counted them into the total. The next morning revealed a landslide victory for the challenger, and an end of the attempted Communist overthrow of the government.