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Let me tell you about the pretty bizarre Polish phenomenon that we call the “election bazaar.”

Poland has a law called “election silence”. It makes it illegal for anyone currently residing within Poland to do any kind of political campaigning on Election Day or the day before. This includes making speeches, putting up posters, airing political commercials, even public posts on social media, though not private conversations or messages in non-public groups. If there's also a referendum that is only valid when a big enough quorum of voters is present, you're not even allowed to encourage people to vote, as that can impact the referendum results. This law supposedly exists to give voters a chance to make their decisions in peace, without constantly being bombarded with propaganda from all sides. Many people (often from opposing political factions) claim that the law is outdated and should be repealed, but it doesn't seem to favor one particular side over any other, so nothing has been done about it so far.

This law also bans public announcements of preliminary poll results during the silence period (from the day before the election until the polls close). The fines for violating this ban are substantial, they start at 500000 pln (about $115k at the current exchange rates.) With fines that large, nobody is willing to risk announcing these results openly, therefore, the election bazaar.

The election bazaar is a phenomenon that emerged a few election seasons ago, on what was back then called Twitter. It involves people, usually people somehow connected to polling agencies but often also random trolls, who post election results disguised as entirely innocent content. They usually come in the form of prices for products you can often find in an open-air market, usually fruits or vegetables. The name of the product has some kind of association with a particular party, often starting with the same letter or letters (an Americanized example would be dandelions and Radishes for democrats and Republicans, respectively).

Many lawyers claim that it's the message that matters, not its format, and therefore these kinds of posts are still illegal, but the government doesn't seem to go after the posters in any meaningful way, and so the phenomenon continues.