I know what I said, that you'd have the accidents of an election, without the substance of one -- the race, the voting, but without any chance of the outcome changing who holds power.

I'm not at all confident this isn't the case. It seemed to me that the only hope would be a landslide against the incumbents, such that it wouldn't be plausible for electroral chicanery to determine the result.

I really hope I'm wrong.