Your Honors,
I intended to file only one brief in this case. But the Defendant’s latest submission concedes the crucial point, which I believe demands emphasis. Specifically, Defendant’s counsel effectively admits that if the Defendant acted with the purpose of recruiting proscribed foreigners to vote in the election for Delegate, then the Defendant acted with an “underlying corrupt purpose.” As the Defendant’s brief further admits, that is true even if the Defendant also thought it would be amusing if proscribed foreigners voted in the Delegate election.
Nevertheless, the Defendant now argues (as he must given those crucial admissions) that he never intended to recruit anyone to actually vote for RON in the Delegate election.
That claim is directly contradicted by the evidence. In the chat on Max’s Chosen, the Defendant states that “I’ve managed to double [RON’s] number of votes via sending one TG but I’m still a lot off actually having any meaningful impact on the election other than causing people to chuckle.” In other words, the Defendant’s regional telegram had caused people to vote for RON. It was that fact–that people actually did vote for RON–that the Defendant found to be amusing. And his posts on Max’s Chosen expressly solicited proscribed foreigners’ help to increase the number of votes for RON and, apparently, to increase “the fun.” As he put it, “if anyone fancies popping into TSP and voting for RON I owe you one.” It is clear from these statements that the Defendant actually wanted people, both TSP residents and foreigners, to cast votes for RON. By the Defendant’s own admission, that was what he found funny–the prospect of votes actually being cast for RON. And because some of the voters that Defendant tried to convince to vote for RON were proscribed foreigners, his “purpose” in recruiting those voters was “corrupt” within the meaning of the Criminal Code.