Your Honors, and may it please the Court,
Thank you immensely for your patience in this post. It is greatly appreciated.
If we assume that the accused’s telegram was intended to be satire, then a reasonable effort should have been made during the election to clarify that. As far as any normal voter saw, an older player with a history of election interference sent a telegram explicitly asking for their vote to be RON.
If we assume that the accused’s messages in a server open to multiple proscribed individuals is satire, then the question remains of what the accused was intending to satire. The accused might not have taken any further actions following those few messages, but in the nature of text-only conversations and knowing who had access to see them on that day, there exists a very real possibility that proscribed individuals took steps to interfere with our elections, steps they might not have taken if the accused did not post in that channel.
Corruption is broadly defined as dishonest actions for personal gain. The accused did act dishonestly by requesting a free WA nation, with no other qualifiers, in a server that contains some of the Coalition’s enemies. The accused’s personal gain by performing such actions is for personal amusement by way of making a mockery out of our political system.