ABSTRACT
Electoral guerrilla theatre is an innovation in the repertoire of contention of social movements in universal-suffrage democracies, reflecting a disillusionment with conventional participation in the electoral process among some marginalized counterpublics. Some electoral guerrillas seek to mock the entire electoral system through participation; others, like Pauline Pantsdown, use the highly mediated ritual in an unconventional way to lampoon a specific political target. Because this is such a modular tactic, it can be used by a wide variety of agents with many different goals. Like all performances, it is altered by and must be adapted to the demands and limits of each contingent context.
