...OK, I guess what I mean is they won't "win" clean, but will "win" dirty.  Are there perhaps different "shades" of fraud?  Clientelism is a type of fraud (isn't it?) and has existed for decades; it exists across countries.  It even exists here in my homeland (Puerto Rico), so you might as well argue that nobody has "won" an election anywhere.

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