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The odds of false registration overturning an election are miniscule.  An individual person could only cast ten or twelve votes over the course of a day, even if they were able to avoid getting noticed for their false registration.  For that they'd be risking felony charges which would without a doubt be persecuted to the maximum extent of the law.  Even if you knew to anticipate a florida 2000 event, it would still involve a rather large conspiracy to overturn even such a slender margin and to overturn a typical election margin would take hundreds or thousands of people.

Rigging the election from within the system is much easier.  The US does not have a national election authority and leaves the matter to a hodgepodge of underfunded state and local groups with little acountability.  Even though it's known and publicized that security flaws are built in (http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/27/floridians-beware-monkey-can-actually-hack-diebold-voting/), nobody cares and we still don't demand a paper trail.  Given the current opportunity of not only overturning an election but getting off scott free, a rigged election is a legitimate concern.

One is possible.  The other aint.

Yeah, most labs keep several mysterious looking vials of water with dye in them around purely for the effect.

umiman, I disagree.  I found Dr. Manhattan's perspective alien and interesting and in the end he wasn't even doing it for her, he was doing it for him.

Basleah, after having an ending spoiler in the trailer I overlooked pointed out to me I caved and read your spoiler there.  I am shocked.  They took the best comic book ever and ripped the beating heart out of it for the sake of a trashy production.  This is a goddamn crime.

It's a lot easier to imagine that photosynthesis in the df world operates off a different energy source then rl.  Example:

The sun projects both light and ether.  Light does not pass through objects (except glass and water, etc.) but ether tends to penetrate quite well, a tiny fraction reflects while most goes through.  While ether normally reflects off of surfaces, plants have learned to harness it in the basis for the ethersynthetic biosphere.  Think really long wave length radiation except it tends to reflect, rather then absorb.
The dwarves live rather close to the surface of the world and barely notice the dilution of the ether due to the earth above them, their plants are often quite close to the surface and get about 99% of the ether that a surface plant would get.  The deepest dwarven mines still get about 90% of surface ether.  Even if a suicidal dwarf were to mine straight through the rectangle and plant seeds on the bottom of the world, those seeds would still experience a significant fracticion of the ether on the surface.

Entropy sorta makes sense and there's a reason for quarry bushes to have leaves.

It's very risky to not restrain a captive and it can actually hurt your speed since being too comfortable makes it easier for them to resist.  Even if your not beating, be a little rougher, it's possible to turn arch conservatives in a single day.  That should be your goal because it is awesome.  You want go start going easy on conservatives if they're in very poor health or are close to suicide.  Drugs IIRC are only useful for overcoming social skills.  If they don't have a social skill or your skill is higher in it, don't bother with drugs.

In interrogation as it exists right now it's most important to 1) have high interrogation skill and 2) have stockholm syndrome happen.  Get the first by training your interrogator(s) up on weak conservatives such as janitors, extra sleepers is never a bad thing.  To get the second you need to give your good cop interrogator time with the conservative treating him relatively gentle i.e. no beating, no starvation or thirsting more then 2 days.

To see an exact method read the spoiler and take all the fun out of figuring the system out for yourself, completely unbalancing the game:

I just downloaded the release currently in the first post.  When I put my current save game in, it had the same bugs although when I started a new game and just waited until elections there were no bugs.  Problem with the version I downloaded or do I need to start over?