I have a question for all those folks who study elections: any democracy hold an election within a week or two of being announced?
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Pop Quiz, Hotshot, Elections edition
17 March 2014, 1017 EDT
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27 October 2020
The Sikkimese monarchy referendum 1975? The referendum was held four days after it was announced.
That certainly sounds like “the exception that proves the rule.”
(Yes, I am using the phrase in its common, not its correct, meaning.)