A Voter will vote at the end of the game for the player who has paid him the highest bribe. The cheques come in two different currencies, bananas and dollars. Journalist The good folk of Banania have got used to corruption, but are nevertheless very patriotic. If a journalist discovers that a Voter has been bribed, not with home grown bananas, but instead with evil foreign dollars, then the bribe loses its effect. The working of this is that if a journalist card has been placed next to a Voter card, then any dollar cards in the same pile lose their value.
Journalists have no effect on banana cards.
So if the cards below a Voter card were a ten thousand dollar cheque, a two thousand banana cheque and a journalist, then the player of the two thousand banana cheque would succeed in buying the Voters votes. It is wise to remember that the Journalist affects all dollar cheques in a pile, including any played by the player who lays the journalist card. Killer As in every civilized land, if a Voter refuses to play along, there remains a final alternative, that of killing him in order to prevent him from voting for your opponents. A Voter who has a killer card in the pile next to him does not vote, having been struck down in his prime just before reaching the hall. If two or more killers are set onto the same Voter, then they succeed only in killing each other and have no effect on the Voter who votes as normal.