Election Security in a D&D/PF world

[JMS]

Close, but why involve the middle man at all?

The "vote" occurs by everyone saying a prayer to the god of fair voting. A demigod can sense anything that involves 1000 or more people, so as long as 1000 or more people cast their vote prayers at the same time such that it becomes a single happening, the demigod can sense it- and a lesser deity only needs 500 people to sense. An intermediate deity can see for a whole week into the past and future, so you can commune a full week before the "vote" is even supposed to take place and get results from the last week leading up to your casting. At this power level they aren't even required to remember it for you, since they can actively sense it at the time you're asking the question.

This method can only be interfered with by deities of the same rank or above that of the deity you're asking, and even then only within a number of miles of an altar. Even if there's no deity with a "fair voting" portfolio, a more general "fairness" or "fair play" statement ought to apply, and any lawful deity would likely be interested enough to remote view the election even if it wasn't within their portfolio (send them a Sending if a simple prayer isn't enough to reach them when they're not looking). So as long as there's a powerful enough lawful deity that their remote viewing can't be blocked, a cleric of that deity could ask them to watch during the vote, after which they can be Commune'd for the answer.

Routing the election results through a deity also pretty well defeats any mortal ability to predict them. The clerics doing the Communing can announce the results from within a Hallowed area, meaning they can't possibly be mind controlled at the time if you don't trust another caster to verify, and/or also submit to truth assurance spells under the usual precautions (from outside the Hallow) if you don't trust the cleric. And if there's a deity with enough power and interested to block this from happening, then you've got problems big enough that no normal vote could be secured anyway.

This is brilliant. Well done!
Also love thee idea that you also have to select your vote counting deities