One person shouts, “I vote for Regina George for Spring Fling Queen.”

Another person shouts “I vote for Cady Heron.”

Another person shouts “I vote for Glen Coco” (you go Glen Coco).

Now, also imagine that everyone in the gymnasium brought their own notebook and is writing down everyone else’s votes as they’re being called out.

When someone shouts a vote for Regina, everyone makes a tally mark next to Regina’s name in their own notebook. When someone shouts a vote for Cady, everyone makes a tally mark next to Cady’s name in their own notebook.

Imagine you do this process for everyone in the gymnasium, what would you end up with?

You’d end up with everyone in the gymnasium having their own vote count in their own notebook, and everyone would know who the winner is. So fetch!

How would Damian go about rigging this vote? He couldn’t! Even if he took one person’s notebook and changed the votes there, it would be obvious that that notebook didn’t align with everyone else’s notebooks. He would have to go to every person’s notebook and change the votes consistently across the whole gymnasium of hundreds of students. This would, of course, be totally impractical.