On December the 9th 2014 The Pirate Bay went down due to raids by the Swedish law enforcement. Since then The Pirate Bay went down on the 18th February for an estimated 12 hours, The website was down though there was no trouble with its domain name and name servers, routing visitors to a CloudFlare Error 522 page.
A political machine is an unofficial system of political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, behind-the-scenes control, and longstanding political ties withi â¦ n the structure of a representative democracy.
The political machine consisted of three elements: part bosses or a county committee, which governed the party, machine and controlled the politicians; election district captains who mobilized and organized support at the neighborhood level; and party loyalists who supported the machine with votes and financial support in return for jobs, favors and help provided by bosses and election district captains.