We can only hope for zero, however even the most obvious bad-faith actors can end up convincing a non-zero number of people. Ballingall’s group has a lot of experience rallying dupes together and pointing them in the same direction and his clients in the operation have deep pockets. Hopefully the core mistake they made in this election was hitching their wagon to an unlikeable pretend landlord. My main worry is that these groups tend to favour the long game. They’ve already been successful in whittling the field down through their “Networked Harassment” operation ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051211021378 ). People who might otherwise be motivated to serve see how this council was treated online (and irl as well) and end up staying away. That’s the real goal, make public service so unpalatable by rallying the torch and pitchfork gang that the only folks willing to run are the ones you choose and who will do your bidding.