"Would you accept that there is a difference between making a 'practical' effort to obtain a level playing field and going ahead in the full knowledge that it is not level whilst attempting to maintain that it is?"

yes...

"Are you suggesting that because what may be considered by many as 'fair' elections would also be matters of judgement, that efforts should not be made to ensure that they are as fair as practically possible?"

no...


"Or that you might has well have them completely open to corruption and totally worthless because 'fairness' is subjective?"

don't be silly...

The only point I was trying to make was that when subjectivity enters the process, someone must have the last word and the game must be played. This is similar to a point I and others have tried to make in the past in 'discussions' with you, Shambles. (A LOT of people, me included, thought that the Florida vote was 'unfair' in our 2000 election, but most of us are not continuously revisiting that or the court decision that allowed that election to stand.)

ok?