Thanks for the clarification! I don't think I've ever seen any of these assassinations, but that might be because I've unwittingly optimized the pathing so I can get most of the votes without pissing anyone off. It definitely feels like the game is much less hostile to you than LLTQ if you play nicely. You can be as nice as you want in LLTQ and you still get mandatory assassination attempts, whereas it seems in this game if you avoid blackmail and don't do obviously inflammatory things, you can avoid most attempts.