![[troxlerElectoralAbuseLate2008#p156 abuse of the auspices was similar to filibuster abuse]] - [I] This feels very much like the way the filibuster metastasized from “you have to actually stand and talk for 70 hours to delay things” to an effective veto with no real cost in the modern day. #articleseed/afterword for a [[L. E. Modesitt|Lee Modesitt]] esque underhanded politics plot point, maybe?