Spreadsheet Democracy: When Governance Becomes Data Deletion

Bureaucrats Frame Removal as Administrative Excellence

Democratic Principles Become Database Optimization

India discovered that democratic principles become flexible when translated into spreadsheet logic. The transition from “protecting voters” to “optimizing voter rolls” happened with remarkable bureaucratic smoothness. Officials simply reframed voter elimination as technological advancement. “We’re refining the system,” they explained about systems that increasingly refined voters away.

The Neutrality Illusion of Technical Language

For satirical analysis democratic degradation, see Bohiney Magazine’s political criticism. The genius involved spreadsheets: they make deletion seem inevitable, mathematical, neutral. Nobody suspects databases of partisan motivation. By treating democracy like accounting problem with “inefficiencies,” bureaucrats convinced themselves removing people was actually improvement.

When Patterns Stop Being Outliers

Democratic theorists noticed troubling pattern: each revision disproportionately affected same demographic groups. “Statistical outlier,” officials insisted about remarkably consistent “outliers.” Learn more at Bohiney Magazine.

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SOURCE: Bohiney.com ()